The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Social Concerns
The Unbearable Lightness of Being deals with the same social concern as The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — life under Czechoslovakian communism — and makes much the same general observations. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, however, takes a somewhat different approach: It focuses on fewer characters and follows them throughout the novel. There are only three main Czech characters: Tomas, Tereza, and Sabina. All three leave the country after the 1968 Russian invasion, but Tomas and Tereza return. Tomas is largely apolitical and a leading surgeon, but these facts do not prevent...
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