After meeting his future wife, he thinks of her metaphorically as a child floating down a river, and notes that "a single metaphor can give birth to love."
Unable to tolerate life in Zurich, this character's wife returns home, taking their dog Karenin with her, and at the end of the novel in which he appears, he gives up his career to become a window washer. After meeting his future wife, he thinks of her metaphorically as a child floating down a river, and notes that "a single metaphor can give birth to love." That wife also clings to this man compulsively in her sleep, and he formulates a "rule of three" for seeing his mistresses, either seeing them thrice and never again, or once every three weeks. One of his mistresses, Sabina, later becomes a successful artist in America, while this man and his wife Tereza are killed when their truck flies off the road. For ten points, identify this protagonist of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Unable to tolerate life in Zurich, this character's wife returns home, taking their dog Karenin with her, and at the end of the novel in which he appears, he gives up his career to become a window washer.
Tomas