Also present are heavily symbolic vignettes which question the nature of attraction, as with the main character's numerous affairs and demotion to window-washing, the random and powerfully affecting nature of the title concept, and the role of determinism in relationships, as in Sabina and Tereza's respective attitudes towards Tomas.
The first of several philosophical concepts threaded throughout this intense and polyvalent novel is the idea of the eternal return--without which, the narrator claims, men like Robespierre and Hitler would have no historical significance. Also present are heavily symbolic vignettes which question the nature of attraction, as with the main character's numerous affairs and demotion to window-washing, the random and powerfully affecting nature of the title concept, and the role of determinism in relationships, as in Sabina and Tereza's respective attitudes towards Tomas. FTP name this 1984 novel about a Czechoslovakian doctor and his relationships, the masterpiece of Milan Kundera.
The first of several philosophical concepts threaded throughout this intense and polyvalent novel is the idea of the eternal return--without which, the narrator claims, men like Robespierre and Hitler would have no historical significance.
The {Unbearable Lightness of Being}