The age of lightness and anxiety
Milan Kundera has been amongst the most popular Czechoslovak exile authors. Escaping to France, his beloved land, he wrote plentiful books, which entail complicated reflections on human beings along with satirical comments on the address on their pride and vanity. After multiple, rather unsuccessful attempts of mine to read the author in french I finally got to the artwork considered to be his greatest: The unbearable lightness of being. The author offers a plethora of motives, some are more accurate, and some seem rather tense and artificial in the book. Before diving deep into what each of the motives means in the book, I will get into the characters of the book. The story mentions 4 core characters, primarily the young couple of Tomáš and Tereza, starting off rather abruptly after "6 happy coincidences", resulting in something resembling very close to the notion of true love. However, their love is troublesome and erratic at the same time, as Tomáš, a renowned surgeon in...