Talk:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

message: I have not finished the book, but it seems that so far as I've read, Kundera uses "lightness" to humorous/absurd effect and praises "heaviness." Shouldn't the article reflect this?--Streetslight 08:27, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lightness

message: The current philosophic underpinning section suggest that Nietzsche's view of the eternal return was that it would literally happen.  This misses the point entirely and thus prevents a very interesting reading of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  Eternal return in Nietzsche is a thought experiment; Nietzsche tells us to imagine that a demon came to us, telling us we would have to relive our lives exactly as we had lived them for all eternity.  Nietzsche basically said that the essence of being human lies in not only not being bothered by this, but loving it, to greet the demon as a god instead.  He links this to the notion of amor fati (love of fate) which he likens to the essence of what it means to be human.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.129.135.10 (talk) 14:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nietzsche

message: This novel was written in French and only just published in Czech. This should be considered a piece of French literature
This novel was NOT written in French, but Kundera didn't allow the publication of the Czech edition earlier than 2006. He started writing in French in the Nineties.
It says right in my copy that the novel was written in Czech and published in 1984.  With some digging I found an article that confirms this and says it was first officially published in French. http://www.radio.cz/en/article/84515  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.135.238.55 (talk) 17:25, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  language 

message: "Although it is never depicted in the novel, Simon later informs Sabina that Tomas died in a car crash with Tereza."  If it is not in the novel, how do we know it happened?  Do the characters appear in other novels?  This should be explained.  Boris B 05:22, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Tomas and Tereza 

message: Hi all, 
I think it's TOMAS, not Thomas, according to the book i have here
Death of Tomas and Tereza (died in a car crash) was written in  the Novel. 
It was not depicted in details, but in a mail sent by Simon, there some short sentences tell about the accident and their death.
Eva8404 18:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Tomas and Tereza 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: my favorite book ever, and this page seems horribly wrong. This might be the page that motivates me to finally contribute to wikipedia. See here for a thousand-times better description http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/unbearablelightness/themes.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.54.19 (talk) 04:42, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  number of pages in the book? 

message: It says in the section about the dog Karenin that it is female, and then uses 'he' repeatedly to refer to it. Should this be changed? (I haven't read the book btw, just passing through) Josie164 (talk) 02:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karenin's gender 

message: In the info box it says that the original title was "Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí". 
As far as I know, the book was written in Czech, so the original title is in Czech. But the first published version was in French and 
went by the title "L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être". The Czech version was published much later in Canada.
Should that not be accounted for somehow in the info box?
--178.202.140.97 (talk) 06:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original title 

message: The article says, " It was also translated to English from Czech by Michael Henry Heim and published in The New Yorker's March 19, 1984 issue under the "Fiction" section."
Was the whole book published in that one issue? Zagalejo (talk) 13:45, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Yorker publication