The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: 1960’s and 1970’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Political fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: Freedom, 1960’s, 1970’s, Communism or communists, Politics, Love or romance, Exile or expatriates, Betrayal, Doctors, Adultery, Switzerland or Swiss people, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Cambodia or Cambodians
- Locales: Zurich, Switzerland, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Places Discussed
*Prague. Capital city of Czechoslovakia and home of Tomas, a successful surgeon and one of the novel’s two protagonists, and the primary setting. At the beginning of the narrative Tomas welcomes a young waitress named Tereza, whom he met in a small provincial town some months before, into his flat on the presumption that she has moved to Prague to find work. Later he realizes that she has actually come to Prague to pursue a romantic relationship with him and that finding a job there is a mere pretense to gain access into his life. Although Prague promises...
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