It demonstrates that things aren’t always so simple.
This book is about love, sexuality, hope, misunderstanding and understanding. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.” Her drama was a drama not of heaviness, but of lightness. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. And Sabina, what had become of her? Nothing. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. We say that something has become a great burden to us. “ When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. Kundera points out that we focus on things having to hold meaning and be heavy in order to have a purpose. “ We reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life might be something light and weightless we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the ‘Es muss sein’ to our own great love.” It is a literary masterpiece.Įarly on in the book, Kundera, in his trademark style of commenting on his own characters in first person, proffers, It also delves into some of his relationships with his mistresses. The book follows Tomas and Tereza and how they both deal with his unending infidelity to her. It changed me in ways that I didn’t even realise were possible.
For me, this quote perfectly encapsulates what this book felt like to me. In a letter to Pollak, Kafka once wrote, " Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle". All feedback and suggestions welcome.įor my first ever blog post, I decided that I should write about one of my favourite books of all time. I have therefore decided to keep my blog posts generally short and snappy. Also, life is so full of information, with so little time to read. This is going to be a very short post, as I am still getting the hang of things.
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