Thunderbolt and lightning very nearly enticing me Repetition! Repetition Kundera— Metaphor! But I'm just a Prague boy and many women love me He's just a Prague boy from a Czech family Flair is his prose from this virtuosity Easy come easy go will you let me go Bohemia! No we will not let you go - let him go Bohemia! We will not let you go - let him go Bohemia! We will not let you go let me go Will not let you go let me go never Never let you go let me go Never let me go ooo No, no, no, no, no, no, no Oh Milan Kundera, Milan Kundera says its so Premier Brezhnev has a gulag put aside for me For me For me [Brian May melts our faces with a blistering guitar solo while Wayne and Garth head bang in a Pacer] Soviet tanks can occupy and eat our pie Naked women can sing and leave me to die Oh Milan, Kant German sex Milan Just gotta go Swiss just gotta get right outta here Ooh yeah, ooh yeah Unbearable lightness Anyone can read Unbearable lightness unbearable lightness of being Any Soviet era Czech knows.
There is probably one novel that is the most responsible for the direction of my post-graduation European backpacking trip ten years ago which landed me in Prague for two solid weeks. Just read it, he wrote. Whatever else you do, just read this book. It is about everything in the world. Being already a Kafka fan of some long-standing, I was quite open to another absurdly minded Czech telling the story of his city and by extension the rest of the world. Suffice to say, Kundera had me at the very first paragraph.
Has any other modern novel had such a wonderfully philosophical opening than this one? The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Needless to say, this is a heady mix, the kind of thing to go straight to a recent college graduate with literature and philosophy on the brain.
To write, as some have, that the book is primarily about erotic encounters is as much as to say that Beethoven was a guy who played piano. Instead it is a book about tyranny, the large and the small, the ones we endure and the ones we resist, the ones we submit to for love and the ones that always rankle silently.
The tyranny of kitsch, as understood by the novel, kitsch to mean a subjective, sentimental folding screen that hides away the sight of death. The questions that the book seeks to explore circle around the ideas of polar opposites, truth and lies, love and hate or indifference , freedom and slavery, heaviness and lightness. The Kundera style is a very delightful bit and piecework manner. Part of what Kundera does is move the story along through first one person, then go back in time and retell only some of that story focused on a second person and demonstrate how our best attempts at comprehending each other remains woefully inadequate.
There will always be layers fathoms below our drilling. Yet at the same time, Kundera moves the story forward, stops, switches character again and in this third instance either goes back to person number one or switches to person number three and repeats the process, and repeats again. While the author may touch the mind and the libido, the heart often remains chilly. Though what precisely does lie behind our disagreements and disconnections from others than differing mental states? We fall out of love with someone not because of the size of her bottom or his new haircut, but because our lives shift in differing directions and we can no longer think in the same cohesive manner with the other person.
Our ideas become different. What are our wants but our ideas given concrete form and targets? Their stories are told against the backdrop of the Russian invasion and subjugation of Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.
Kundera twines their two stories together examining how love can either lift us up to heights of ecstasy or weigh us down with its solidity and unchangeable reality — then poses the surprising question: which condition should we view as the negative in binary opposition?
Is it the uncentered lack of gravity that makes love real and powerful or does that quality make us too airy and flighty, unserious when we most need it?
Can it be both? Can it be that when couples part it is because what is lighter than a breeze for one has become a leaden drag on the other? This is done through a sort of anecdotal dictionary that allows each character to demonstrate their grasp of an idea.
The graves are covered with grass and colorful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles. No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. When she felt low, [Sabina] would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another of the country cemeteries she loved so well.
Against a backdrop of blue hills, they were as beautiful as a lullaby. For Franz a cemetery was an ugly dump of stones and bones. At every stage, there is an elegiac note to happiness as though all these dances have been gone through before, as though all love affairs, even should Nietzsche be wrong, carry within them the seeds of their own endings. Their tragedy is commonplace and follows a pattern as though ritualized. For each of them separately, it is a kind of death to be together and a kind of death to be apart, and together their momentary happinesses are a kind of staving off of this specter.
Kundera nicely ends The Unbearable Lightness of Being, foreshadowing what happens later after the closing scenes, which gives the novel a sadly sweet tone instead of merely tragic. Instead of simply ending with death, as a kind of negation, the book closes with sleep, part of the circling motif, the cycle we go through, our lives one passing hoop.
After my initial reading of the novel, I found myself rereading it immediately, going through all of it again, underlining passages, committing certain ones to memory.
It is a kind of exorcism and a kind of nostalgia and it is a beautiful example of writing that matters, beyond all else, writing that matters. Amy Reed. I have a bone to pick with Kundera and his following. People, this has got to be the most over-rated book of human history. I mean, references to infidelity alone even infidelity that makes use of funky costumes like '50s ganster hats--the only note-and-applauseworthy aspect this book!
The male protaganist is, hands down, a one-dimensional and boring buffoon, while the female protaganist is lackluster and underdeveloped. This is the current stable version of Mixxx, which means it has been thoroughly tested and is considered stable enough for live use. Although Mixxx contains many important updates and bugfixes, it's possible some users may experience issues.
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