'Unbearable Lightness of Being': Infinite dialectic of lightness, heaviness | Daily Sabah
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Milan Kundera’s 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' weaves philosophy, history and psychology into a profound meditation on love, choice and...
"Lightness of Being" is a work in which Milan Kundera weighs not just the intersecting lives of four characters, but all of human existence on the scales of lightness and heaviness. Kundera's language is at times as precise as a philosopher's calm sentences, at others as fragile as a poet's verse written to the wind. Therefore, the book is both a philosophical text, a sociological testimony and a psychological introspection. Philosophical layer The novel opens with Parmenides' doctrine of opposites. The lightness-heaviness dilemma is presented here not merely as an abstract philosophical…
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