Kundera contrasts nietzsche s philosophy of eternal return or of heaviness with parmenides s understanding of life as light.
The unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera summary.
Kundera wonders if any meaning or weight can be attributed to life.
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.
The unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera is a novel told in seven parts.
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí is a 1984 novel by milan kundera about two women two men a dog and their lives in the 1968 prague spring period of czechoslovak history.
The unbearable lightness of being opens with a philosophical discussion of lightness versus heaviness.
The unbearable lightness of being czech.
In 1985 the work was released in the original czech but it was banned in czechoslovakia until 1989.