The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Themes
Despite its political observations. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in contrast to The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, is much more philosophical than political. The philosophical themes are introduced in the first few pages, with speculations on Nietzsche's idea of eternal return (rejected), Parmenides' theory of opposites (weight/ lightness, and so forth), and the German adage Einmal ist keinmal ("what happens but once . . . might as well not have happened at all"). These speculations lead to the shocking conclusion that "in this world everything is pardoned in advance and...
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