Who Wrote The Unbearable Lightness Of Being?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being was written by Milan Kundera and published in 1984. Milan Kundera is a French-Czech author, who was born in 1929 and is still living in France. Born in Czechoslovakia he moved to France in 1975. He write his first book ‘The Joke’ in 1967 which was blacklisted and banned within the Communist regime which ruled Czechoslovakia. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is not so political as The Joke and centres on the life of a surgeon/doctor Tomas, his wife Tereza and Tomas’s lover Sabina. Kundera believes that life is meaningless and absurd, so each life is insignificant and each decision we therefore make is irrlevevant. So in this way our decisions are ‘light’ and do not bear down on us, but ultimately the absolute insignificance of our lives and decisions is ‘unbearable’. Therefore it is acceptable to talk about ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’.
