the unbearable lightness of being review

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. He even does it with the whole of the novel really, when he writes this within the first two pages of the novel: One thing that I enjoyed about his writing is that he provides a lot of examples, through small tangents, that frames the idea he is trying to get across to the reader.

Though I will say that there were some parts that lost me from time to time. (Spark Notes) The Writingĭespite not always understanding philosophy and philosophical writing, I found Kundera’s writing to be easy to follow. … accepting the lightness of being means accepting a certain lack of ultimate meaning in life, and living for momentary beauty.

The main theme that resonated the most with me (or maybe it was the only part that I really understood) was that Because of that, I ended up referring to Spark Notes to help me understand what I read. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera was a difficult read for me and mostly because it was very philosophical ( Goodreads link). I found out pretty quickly that some deem this novel of Kundera’s as a classic and since I’ve been trying to read more ‘classics’ from time to time, I knew I had to read it. This one sentence reason was one of the first things that made me intrigued about this novel. The reason for a someone single rather than in a relationship to read Kundera’s novel is the following:īecause if you read this book while you are dating someone you will definitely, definitely break up. One of them was The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Several months ago, I found this 2013 Huffington Post article, 25 Books You Should While You’re Single and decided to put most or all of them on my TBR list.

The unbearable lightness of being review