Daniela Sofia Galeana Gaspar, Grade 11
UWC ISAK Japan
“The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?” - Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was born in Moravia in 1929, the son of musicologist and pianist Ludvík Kundera (1891-1971), who was a disciple of Leoš Janáček and served as director of the Brno Academy of Music until 1961. The young Kundera studied musicology and musical composition, being numerous influences and references to music throughout his literary work.
His books and the dialogue in them are clearly influenced by philosophy and are usually approached with this philosophical thinking that defines the book’s style and overall theme.
The unbearable lightness of being is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. The book follows Teresa and Thomas, two people with extremely different v understanding and views of their own world who struggle to maintain an unhealthy relationship filled with hate, obsession, and jealousy. Two other very important characters are introduced as the book continues: Sabina and France. The main characters struggle with the weight of their lives in different ways as they influence each other’s lives and vice versa, a fascinating approach attempting to explore the idea proposed by the title of the book “The unbearable lightness of being.”
I don’t think there’s been another book to ever make me experience as much emotion as what I felt when reading it. Although the story is rather gloomy and saddening, no grey or somber sights could drown my mind in the book, only sunny and gorgeous places where the setting of this story is as I swept the pages. While a guttural and disgustingly beautiful experience invaded my being as I read how they hurt, rot, and bled obsession as they chained themselves to a murderous love. A guttural feeling that could only be described as sad, disgustingly beautiful. Two people are so obsessed with each other that they confuse it with love, trapped and disgusted when they realize that they have completely lost each other and in doing so themselves. There is no comparison to presenting two people who can only hate themselves because they’ve drowned in one another. A feeling I don’t ever want to experience, and that I could never wish upon another human being outside the fascinating words of Milan Kundera.
Bibliography MLA:
Kundera, Milan. Die Unertragliche Leichtigkeit Des Seins...The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Distribooks Inc, 1997, www.msjkeeler.com/uploads/1/4/0/6/1406968/milan_kundera_-_the_unbearable_lightness_of_being.pdf.
Image Courtesy: https://www.mientraspasaba.com/frases-libro-insoportable-levedad-ser-milan-kundera/
Milan Kundera was born in Moravia in 1929, the son of musicologist and pianist Ludvík Kundera (1891-1971), who was a disciple of Leoš Janáček and served as director of the Brno Academy of Music until 1961. The young Kundera studied musicology and musical composition, being numerous influences and references to music throughout his literary work.
His books and the dialogue in them are clearly influenced by philosophy and are usually approached with this philosophical thinking that defines the book’s style and overall theme.
The unbearable lightness of being is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. The book follows Teresa and Thomas, two people with extremely different v understanding and views of their own world who struggle to maintain an unhealthy relationship filled with hate, obsession, and jealousy. Two other very important characters are introduced as the book continues: Sabina and France. The main characters struggle with the weight of their lives in different ways as they influence each other’s lives and vice versa, a fascinating approach attempting to explore the idea proposed by the title of the book “The unbearable lightness of being.”
I don’t think there’s been another book to ever make me experience as much emotion as what I felt when reading it. Although the story is rather gloomy and saddening, no grey or somber sights could drown my mind in the book, only sunny and gorgeous places where the setting of this story is as I swept the pages. While a guttural and disgustingly beautiful experience invaded my being as I read how they hurt, rot, and bled obsession as they chained themselves to a murderous love. A guttural feeling that could only be described as sad, disgustingly beautiful. Two people are so obsessed with each other that they confuse it with love, trapped and disgusted when they realize that they have completely lost each other and in doing so themselves. There is no comparison to presenting two people who can only hate themselves because they’ve drowned in one another. A feeling I don’t ever want to experience, and that I could never wish upon another human being outside the fascinating words of Milan Kundera.
Bibliography MLA:
Kundera, Milan. Die Unertragliche Leichtigkeit Des Seins...The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Distribooks Inc, 1997, www.msjkeeler.com/uploads/1/4/0/6/1406968/milan_kundera_-_the_unbearable_lightness_of_being.pdf.
Image Courtesy: https://www.mientraspasaba.com/frases-libro-insoportable-levedad-ser-milan-kundera/
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