“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” created by Milan Kundera provides the readers with philosophical insights on the reality of love and relationship. Reading this book, one might say that Milan Kundera was perhaps a student of a school of thought under philosophy since even from the very first...
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The Unheard Voice of Commitment What the reader understands of the infidelity of Milan Kundera's characters in The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a mere distraction from the real substance of the story and of the character's real purpose. Kundera offers the reader a red herring and only through...
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Kundera’s use of language gives the reader the impression that Tereza is struggling to discover herself as a person. “I was at a large indoor swimming pool. There were about twenty of us. All women. We were naked and had to march around the pool. There was a basket hanging from the ceiling and a...
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Love, Loss, and Desperation To most people, love is a generally beautiful thing that fills one with happiness. Usually, if one person really loves another, he or she would never dream of hurting or cheating on this loved one. However, sometimes this does not happen. Love is not always pleasurable...
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” — — “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures...
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One of the options to choose a book for the review is to rummage around literary forums. You can be sure that you will find the book “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera there, many readers praised it, and this book was called the “Book of the World,” the “kind, bright” novel and...
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