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  2. The best study guide to The Unbearable Lightness of Being on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.

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  3. Written by ARUSHI RAJ, Acie Jayn and other people who wish to remain anonymous. Tomas, a serial philanderer, after being divorced from his first wife believes in strictly erotic friendships. But when he meets Tereza he breaks his rule and soon they get married.

  4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a novel by Milan Kundera that was first published in 1984. The novel takes place before, during, and after the Prague Spring, a period of mass protest against Czechoslovakia as a Communist state after World War II.

  5. Apr 20, 2021 · One day Tomas, a single divorcee and surgeon living in Prague, meets Tereza, a waitress from a small Czech town. She comes back to his flat with him and they make love. Then, she comes down with the flu and ends up staying a week in Tomas’ flat before going home.

  6. Summary. Part 1: Lightness and Weight. In his author/narrator persona, Kundera explores Nietzsche's idea of eternal return. He introduces Tomas, a Czech surgeon in Prague who is trying to decide whether he should contact Tereza, a woman he met on a business trip.

  7. Overview. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, published in 1984 by Czech-French author Milan Kundera, is a philosophical novel that explores the nature of love, sex, and existence. The novel follows the lives of four main characters—Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, and Franz—before and during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

  8. First published in 1984 in both Paris and New York, Milan Kundera 's The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a rich and complicated novel that is at once a love story, a metaphysical treatise, a political commentary, a psychological study, a lesson on kitsch, a musical composition in words, an aesthetic exploration, and a meditation on human existe...

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