abstract:The Unbearable Lightness of Being () is a 1984 postmodern novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history in 1968. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être).
Middle Easterners: Different cultures, petite, my friends, scarves, The Kite Runner, big eyes, New Wave, TheUnbearableLightnessofBeing, Alicia Keys and bagels.
I'm reminded of a passage written by Milan Kundera, author of'The UnbearableLightnessofBeing, ' in which he talks about starting with what you can see and then going deeper and deeper to the microbial level in order to find the life inside what is apparent on the surface.