In a novel partly titled for this concept, its opposite is exemplified by the words "Es muss sein!"
An essay titled for this concept closes by discussing Kafka's story about a man riding a coal bucket into the Icy Mountains. A novel partly titled for it illustrates this quality with a story about Yakov Stalin smearing shit in a POW camp latrine, then throwing himself on an electric fence. The first of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the New Millennium discusses this concept. In a novel partly titled for this concept, its opposite is exemplified by the words "Es muss sein!" from a (*) Beethoven string quartet. That novel begins by discussing how our lives take on this quality if Nietzsche's concept of eternal return is false. This word is the first title noun of a novel in which Sabina is the mistress of Tereza's husband TomÃ¡Âš. For 10 points, name this "unbearable" quality attributed to "being" by the title of a Milan Kundera novel.
An essay titled for this concept closes by discussing Kafka's story about a man riding a coal bucket into the Icy Mountains.
lightness [or leggerezza; or lehkost; or lÃ©gÃ¨retÃ©]