The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: Czechoslovakia and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, Franz
- 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
The Story:
Tomas was visiting a provincial town in Czechoslovakia to perform surgery when he met Tereza in a café, where she worked as a waitress. Shortly after his return to Prague, she turned up at his apartment with a heavy suitcase. They made love immediately. She came down with flu, and he was unable to throw her out for a week afterward. Even when he had installed her in an apartment of her own, he was unable to leave her. Although Tomas loved Tereza as he did no other woman, he was unable to give up seeing other women. Chief among these was the artist Sabina. Sabina...
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