In 1985 the work was released in the original czech but it was banned in czechoslovakia until 1989.
The unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera summary.
The unbearable lightness of being novel by milan kundera first published in 1984 in english and french translations.
Through the lives of four individuals the novel explores the themes of lightness and weight.
Kundera contrasts nietzsche s philosophy of eternal return or of heaviness with parmenides s understanding of life as light.
Kundera wonders if any meaning or weight can be attributed to life.
Although written in 1982 the novel was not published until two years later in a french translation as l insoutenable légèreté de l être.
The unbearable lightness of being czech.
The unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera is a novel told in seven parts.
The unbearable lightness of being opens with a philosophical discussion of lightness versus heaviness.