What are the main elements of the unbearable lightness of life?

"The Unbearable Lightness of Life" reads as follows:

** Starts with Nietzsche's theory of "the return of eternal fortune", telling the emotional entanglement and survival state of the protagonist Thomas and other four people. Thomas, a surgeon, met Teresa, a country tavern waitress through a chance visit, and married her while still having sex with several women, and one of her lovers, Sabina, introduced Teresa as a journalist. The trio went into exile in Geneva, and in the end, Thomas chose to live in seclusion in the countryside with Teresa, and both died in a car accident.

Sabina, on the other hand, chooses to wander around, and her lover Franz dies in front of his wife after being abandoned for a robbery.

Social contextAfter the failure of the "Prague Spring" revolution in 1968, democratic reforms turned into arbitrary oppression, and people fell into an unprecedented crisis of faith and lack of meaning. Against the backdrop of totalitarian repression, the existentialist philosophical currents that emerged in the first half of the 20th century had an impact on Czech culture in the heart of Europe. Existentialism emphasizes the rejection of God's salvation, facing a desperate and painful life, and resisting with the power of human beings by searching for the lost self, and pursuing absolute freedom of choice, which influenced Kundera's literary creation to a certain extent.

Theme ideaIn The Unbearable Lightness of Life, Kundera extracts the morphology and terrestrial state of the existence of life, and condenses it into existential codes that contain the personalities of different characters: heavy and light, spirit and flesh, kitsch and vulgarity, etc., using these codes, Kundera thinks deeply about existence, shows the dilemma and absurdity of life under high pressure, and makes people see the meaning of life more clearly.

The meaning of the phrase "life is unbearable" means that there are many seemingly insignificant things in our lives, but in fact, when they happen, the results are often beyond our means.

This sentence comes from the Czech author Milan Kundera's most famous work, The Lightness of Life That Can't Bear the Key, which was officially renamed The Unbearable Lightness of Life after it was published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House.

The work mainly tells the love life between Thomas and Salina and Theresa, it is not only a love triangle story between a man and two women, but also a philosophical **, ** brings readers into love and sex.

The work can be said to be a relatively complex book, and the content in the book also has many meanings: there are revelations of social connotations, as well as the investigation of human nature, the presentation of personal destiny in a specific history, and the exploration of the nature of gender relations.

The author fuses these elements together to write a rich orange macro that arouses people's thinking**, and at the same time, it also shows all the life processes of people and joys and sorrows.

There are many "unbearable burdens" in people's lives, such as work, life, relationships, relationships, etc., which vary from person to person. But people often ignore that there is still an "unbearable lightness" in life! A person lives in a world without pressure, and there may be many reasons why there is no pressure, such as he is pampered and has no worries about food and clothing; For example, he does not want to make progress, and does nothing all day long, like a walking corpse; For example, he escaped from reality, saw through the red dust, and escaped into the empty door ......These are negative ways of doing things, this kind of "stress-free" life, which does not make people feel "heavy", but makes people feel "light", but this "lightness" can ruin a person and make him drown in the rolling red dust and achieve nothing.

Therefore, this kind of "lightness" is unacceptable, and it should not be endured and cannot be borne in life!

"Unbearable lightness of life" means that there are too many things in life that seem as light as a feather, but are unbearable. Profound meaning: It reveals the unbearable lightness of human life, because "eternal return" is impossible.

The history of the nation and the life of the individual are only one-off, without arrangement, without drafts, and the choice becomes meaningless.

Source: Milan Kundera English title: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", which the New York Times once commented on as the most important classic of the 20th century.

The original language of the work is Czech, and the original Czech book is called "Nesnes itelnáleh kostbytí". It was first published in France in 1984 under the French title L'Insuoutenablelégèreté del'être. The 1987 Chinese translation was translated as The Unbearable Lightness of Life, which was later republished by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House and renamed The Unbearable Lightness of Life.