This character has a recurring dream in which her husband hangs from a basket at a pool and forces her and several other naked, singing women to perform kneebends, shooting any who are unable to continue.
This character's mother attempts to choose between nine different suitors embodying different superlatives, but doesn't get to choose because "the manliest" impregnates her. This character has a recurring dream in which her husband hangs from a basket at a pool and forces her and several other naked, singing women to perform kneebends, shooting any who are unable to continue. Recognizing a Beethoven string quartet playing on the radio in a pub is one the "six improbable (*) fortuities" that bring her together with her future husband. Her husband refuses to retract an article that he wrote claiming that supporters of tyranny should be contrite as Oedipus, which eventually causes him to lose his job as a surgeon and take up window washing.  Near the end of the novel in which she appears, her husband euthanizes her dog, Karenin. For 10 points, name this lover of Tomas in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
This character's mother attempts to choose between nine different suitors embodying different superlatives, but doesn't get to choose because "the manliest" impregnates her.
Tereza