Resumo de The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

It is the second time that I have read this book; as I already knew
what was going to be instilled into me I was ready for it. And I feel
the need to forewarn. After just a few pages, the novel starts to
overpower you with a melancholy that rises from the soles of your feet
to the hair on your head and almost without your realizing it, when you
are quite pleasurably absorbed in the story, it overtakes you
completely.

Milan Kundera mixes philosophy, love, enmity, history, reality and
fiction in equal parts, and the result is a story of love, analysed
from many angles, in which his protagonists draw out all the fears,
feelings, and secrets that they themselves do not recognize and
sensations that they never wanted to come to the surface. They discover
them and so does the reader. It is a book that makes you think and
reflect from the first page.

The novel tells us the story of the love of Theresa and Thomas, the
main protagonists intermixed with the story of Sabina and Franz. Sabina
eternal lover of Thomas.

It is a story of love, hard and passionate. Thomas addicted to
infidelity and obsessed with not tying up his life to that of another
person. Theresa, a woman ruined by the infidelities of Thomas, by the
fear that this produces in her, the absolute and continuous sense of
insecurity she feels. She loves Thomas from the first moment she sees
him, the result of six absurd coincidences that made her see in him her
salvation; the man of her life.

Having spent just an hour talking to him, she arrives at his house
in Prague with a heavy suitcase which she gives him together with her
whole life.

In the middle of this story we live the historical moment of the entry of the Russian tanks into Prague in 1968.

It is a book to be read slowly, to be reread, with inspired passages
such as: "A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words" in the description
of the second relationship in the book, that of Sabina, an independent
woman and artist, and Franz, a married man, good and, in a certain way,
grey. An original way of showing us how different the ways life can be
seen by one person from another, from simple things to those more
important.

A lovely work of prose, full of poetry, a direct style; for sure it
is for people who like to read books without being in a hurry, books
that make them meditate and that provide them with philosophy in the
form of a novel. And whoever is not disposed to feel the harshness of
real life, of absolutely real love relationships, can refrain from
doing so.

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