Take بار هستی Presented By Milan Kundera Exhibited In Physical Book

book definitely wins the award for Most Pretentious Title Ever, People would ask me what I was reading, and I would have to respond by reading the title in a sarcastic, OxfordProfessorofLiterature voice to make it clear that I was aware of how obnoxiously superior I sounded.
Honestly, Kundera: stop trying so hard, Chill. Out.
When I first started reading this book, I really disliked it, Kundera wastes the first two chapters on philosophical ramblings before he finally gets around to telling the story, and even then his own voice darts in and out of the story, interjecting his own opinion into the plot.
It's like trying to watch a movie with the director's commentary playing in the background all you can think is, "shut up and let me watch the movie in peace!" I also thought he was trying way too hard to be a Critically Acclaimed Author for example: "Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous.
Metaphors are not to be trifled with, A single metaphor can give birth to love, "

Um sure. Why not.

But once he decides to relax a little and actually tell a coherent story, it becomes really engrossing.
I was never crazy about Tomas and Tereza, who love each other despite the fact that Tomas is a selfish manwhore Kundera phrased it more poetically, but that's basically the truth, but I think I understood them.
Also, the lastsome pages of the book were AMAZING, made me cry, and are the reason this book gets four instead of three.


"We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
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Jeden z moich ulubieńców Seems odd that I'd read Kundera seven times previously and one of those seven books was not The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
But for whatever reason that's the way it went down, All I can say is that it was worth the wait, I simply loved Immortality, Laughable Loves too, and this was every bit as good, If anything, I

found it even better,
Before I even started reading I pondered over this cover, I knew as little as possible about the novel previously, Other than Prague, sex, and a dog featured, Was it a man who liked wearing women's underwear Or a woman who had a thing for Bowler hats Or a hat, a bra, and a pair of panties from three different people Now all becomes clear! And I can't stop thinking about Sabina's orgasmic shout!

Kundera's Philosophical musings blended together with lots of romping didn't surprise me one bit.
What did though was how everything came together to make a novel with characters I truly cared for, Don't think I've come across such a warm bonding with Kundera's men and women previously, Oh, and of course there's Karenin too, who could forget, and I'm normally a cat lover, How I would have loved to play catch with him, take him for walks, let him sleep at the end of my bed, lick me in the face to wake me up in the morning.
Now I want a dog!
Back to the humans Tomas is one of four main characters born frankly of images in Kundera's mind.
All of them to one extent or another enact the paradox of choices that are not choices, of courses of action that are indistinguishable in consequence from their opposite.
He shows us Sabina, a painter, as she is deciding whether or not to keep her current lover, Franz, a university professor.
Franz is physically strong. If he used his strength on her and ordered her about, Sabina knows she wouldn't put up with him for more than five minutes.
But he is gentle, like a pacified bear, and because she believes physical love must be violent she finds Franz rather dull.

Either way, whatever Franz does, she will have to leave him and move on,

Sabina lives by betrayal by abandoning family, her lovers, and, in the end, her country, in a way that condemns her to what Kundera calls a lightness of being, by which he means an existence so lacking in commitment, fidelity, or moral responsibility to anyone else as to be unattached to the real world.
By contrast, his fourth character, Tereza, the loyal wife of Tomas, suffers an unflagging love for her philandering husband that finally is responsible for his ruin in the medical profession, because it's her unwillingness to live in exile that brings him back to his fate in Czechoslovakia after he has set himself up nicely in a Swiss hospital.
Thus, Tereza, the exact opposite of Sabina in commitment and rootedness, descends under an unbearable moral burden, weight and lightness, in the Kunderian physics, which adds up to the same thing.
I could try and pick bits and pieces of the novel that stood out for me, Only I can't. Because I loved everything about it, all equally, Without a single moment when I thought 'Umm, does that really need to be in there'

This for me is Kundera in truly formidable form.
And it's no surprise the book was, is, and will continue to be, so popular with readers, And let's face it, would it have been so popular if it wasn't for the sex I doubt it, But it's so much more than that, and if it isn't one of the best things I end up reading this year, then I've gone completely round the bend!

Thank you Mr Kundera, You're an absolute genius! BookFromBooks Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí Linsoutenable légèreté de lêtre The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is anovel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in thePrague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.


From the book: “The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose Weight or lightness, . . When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness.
We say that something has become a great burden to us, We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose, And Sabina what had come over her Nothing, She had left a man because she felt like leaving him, Had he persecuted her Had he tried to take revenge on her No, Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness, What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being, ”

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: بار هستی کلاه کلمنتیس نویسنده: میلان کوندرا تاریخ نخستین خوانش: هشتم ماه سپتامبر سالمیلادی و بار دوم: سالمیلادی

عنوان: کلاه کلمنتیس نویسنده: میلان کوندرا مترجم: احمد میرعلائی مشخصات نشر: تهران نشر دماوند سالدرص انتشارات باغ نو نیز در سالکتاب را از همین مترجم و درص منتشر کرده است موضوع: ادبیات چک نقد و بررسی از نویسندگان چک سدهم

عنوان: بار هستی نویسنده: میلان کوندرا مترجم: پرویز همایون پور مشخصات نشر: تهران گفتار سالدرص موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان چک سدهم

فهرست: یادداشت مصاحبه ای با میلان کوندرا غرب در گروگان یا فرهنگ از صحنه بیرون میرود جایی آن پشت و پسله ها نامه های گمشده کلاه کلمنتیس فرشته ها

کوندرا در بازنمایی قهرمانان خود میگویند: شخصیتهای رمانی که نوشته ام امکانات خود من هستند که تحقق نیافته اند بدین سبب هراسانم نیز آنها را دوست میدارم آنها از مرزی گذر کرده اند که من فقط آن را دور زده ام

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی هجری خورشیدی هجری خورشیدی ا, شربیانی The Unbearable Lightness of Being was almost unbearable to read, There was a lot of pseudointellectual meandering about things that deserved a little more grit, Rather, I prefer a little more reality, I didn't care about the characters, and I didn't feel like they cared about anything, I feel like saying I was impressed with the thoughtiness of this book, but by the time I typed it I'd be so buried under multiple levels of irony that I'd suddenly be accidentally sincere again.
What was I saying Oh, yeah, I'd probably like this book a lot more if I was having more sex,

NC I felt this book was contrived and to me it seemed as if the author tried desperately to sound intellectual.
Instead he came off egotistical, First off all the meandering about Nietzche and quite frankly he set me off to start off by making statements I couldn't agree but he goes right on as if it is a trueism that everyone must believe in.


To be quite frank the characters were boring, The prose was uninteresting. There was no emotion, no real depth, and how many times to I have to hear about him pluking the woman from the reed basket please!

Another reviewer mentioned slogging thorugh life and this book I couldn't agree more it was a chore and that's not what we read for.
I finally "gave up the ghost" so maybe I shouldn't review it since I've not read it all the way through but bad is bad, and I can't see how this was going to turn itself around.


This author has created a facade he talks a good story, with lots of smoke and mirrors with words that sound intellectual but there is no real depth there.


Overrated Rhetorical games, combined with recurrent references to Nietzsche and Beethoven, create an intellectual facade that seems much weightier than it really is.
Built on many false presumptions and bolstered by an epic, scholarly tone, the novel has potential to be interesting in its musings, but just can't be taken seriously as a work of philosophical or psychological depth.


I would recommend that people avoid this book There are so much better uses of their time,

Robin
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