The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Techniques
Kundera mixes modes in The Unbearable Lightness of Being the way he did in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, but in some ways The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a more traditional novel. For example, the plot and the development of character tend to be along traditional lines, despite some departure from straight chronology. One interesting departure is that Kundera tells about two-thirds of the way through that Tomas and Tereza died in an accident when the brakes on Tomas's truck failed. This information tends to throw the two into a softer light toward the end of the novel.
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