The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Ideas for Group Discussions

The Unbearable Lightness of Being ought to engender lively discussions, as long as the outspoken eroticism present in this novel is dealt with directly. Issues of particular interest may concern its portrayal of sexual mores, the antagonism between sexual desire and marriage, the ascription of gender difference, and the complex of fidelity and betrayal. As well, issues of political significance found here have not been eclipsed by the dissolution of the Communist regimes in the Eastern Bloc, in that the questions posed by Kundera transcend geopolitical boundaries and find wider...

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