Dec 26, 2009

The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Characters

Characters

Kundera allows himself more room to develop his characters in The Unbearable Lightness of Being than he did in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978), but each character still tends to be developed around one leading trait. At the beginning of the novel and throughout most of it, Tomas is an incorrigible womanizer. At the beginning he also eschews all responsibility, having cut all ties to his former wife and his son and to his parents, who have disowned him. He will not even let the women he sleeps with stay all night. But when he meets Tereza in a...