This book contains a light, an unbearably light…, but profound anatomy of the psychology of totalitarianism in the Age of the Spectacle – and thus is of great interest. It is, moreover, deftly handled. Kundera understands what he is speaking of – he *understands* it. I am quite surprised to find th...
I read this once for a course & started it again in winter 2013 and couldn't get myself to like it either time. I like the "incredible lightness" concept but once I get the feeling that an author can't respectfully write female characters it is really tough for me to continue.
One of the best books I've ever read. "Es muss sein", a simple phrase that characterizes the unbearable lightness of being. It must be. Our decisions have no consequences and that makes our lives unbearable. But despite this reality, we are still here and we still live and we must make the best of ...
13% and I'm done. I have had a run of books that have bored me, or annoyed me, or just did nothing for me. This one is... You know, I don't even know how to describe this one. I pretty much hated it from the first page. I do not understand the high rating on Goodreads for this book. I can barely sta...
one of the most overrated books of all time, I felt no interest for characters, story or philosophy of the book, the whole form of narration and tumblr like quotes was pretty annoying as much as the characters were
I liked the ideas presented in this book, of God and shit, of animals and Paradise, of bodies and souls, of his idea of reincarnation. If the copy I read was my own, it would have been filled with underlines. I couldn't like the writing. It was so...cerebral. As if I was reading a textbook for socia...
A novel of ideas and love. It is a good novel, but very much of its time in its self-referentiality. All of it set against a background of the communist repression in Czechoslovakia. Recommended. There is definitely a Czech style to novels. Perhaps not quite as good as it is meant to be, but st...
Some twenty years ago, I picked up this book for the first time. Since then, it has compelled me to read it again and again, not because of the great plot or intriguing characters, but because of how Kundera is able to pull you into the story.He forced me to think about how Unbearable Lightness real...
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