

Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... The Unbearable Lightness of Being (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1984; vuoden 1988 painos)Tekijä: Milan Kundera
TeostiedotOlemisen sietämätön keveys (tekijä: Milan Kundera) (1984)
![]()
» 46 lisää Unread books (2) Magic Realism (11) 501 Must-Read Books (63) BBC Big Read (66) Favourite Books (190) 20th Century Literature (155) 1980s (10) A Novel Cure (70) Books Read in 2021 (206) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (190) Existentialism (3) Books Read in 2016 (3,033) Books Read in 2013 (423) Reading Globally (18) Overdue Podcast (221) Love and Marriage (52) Elegant Prose (70) A's favorite novels (77) indicações da lays (10) Authors from France (18) to get (137) Europe (187) Libertarian Books (97)
Some parts have been brilliant, with some excellent ideas/concepts on philosophy, tyranny, politics, and humanity. However the characters can be pretty unlikable, the story can feel a little clumsy and the overt sexuality to everything (and I mean everything) can get a bit old. I can see how some people think is a masterpiece but it really wasn't for me. I read faster near the end just to get it over with. (30) Every year around this time I re-read a book from the past. This is a novel I read long ago in college; during an English class. I may have read it an additional time in close proximity. I had always considered it profound and an absolute favorite. This is what I said when I tried to review it as an older adult for my LT collection in 2006: "I absolutely loved this book when I read it for a college English class. Redefined how I felt about life and love. I was a deep thinker then -- now my brain craves plot and action -- I wonder how I would feel about a re-read. Still have to give it 5 stars though." So upon a re-read - I do need to downgrade it to a generous 4 stars. At times it felt quite pretentious and just a disjointed series of antidotes about unreal characters created to illustrate the author's various philosophical ruminations. Many of them centered around Communism as well as romantic love. The main characters are Tomas and Tereza, a young Czech couple who meet and fall in love around the Russian occupation of the country and the mandated shift to totalitarianism. Tomas is a consummate womanizer despite his love for Tereza (Ugh, he made me sick - especially his time as a window-washer) and Tereza in an insecure photographer. The book tries to figure out whether one should lean into responsibility, steadfastness, principled living no matter how tedious (the weight) or just betray everyone and everything for the very joie de vive (the lightness)? Which is good and which is bad? And does it really matter since you can never go back and see how the other path would have played out? The best most redeeming part and the part that I remembered all these years later is Karenin, the couple's dog. For a dog - time is a circle - the same things happen over and over again and this is blissful. The linearity of man's clock is what makes our lives unbearably heavy (or is that unbearably light) The love one has for a faithful dog is perfect. Amen to that. That always stuck with me. The rest ... meh. 4 stars, but ..probably one bonus star, for nostalgia alone. This book meant a great deal to me when I was younger, but it seems indulgent and rather silly in many ways to me now. I just wanted to knock all the characters heads together. Snap out of it you fools - stop navel-gazing. I enjoyed reading this but was also frustrated with the author trying to place meaning on everything - too much of something turns into nothing, and the "meaningfulness" became contradictory to me. What a strange book. I'm surprised it somehow "broke out" and became as well read as it has. It's certainly original. It really combines philosophy with a novel, and I'm never too excited about a novel that feels it needs to "spell out" the philosophy that supposedly is inherent in the storytelling. Nonetheless, it was readable, and I actually enjoyed (and often agreed with) the philosophical musings enough that I was able to appreciate the book on the whole. I'm super anxious to look at Sparknotes' analysis now that I've finished the story. I feel like there were major philosophical points that I strongly agreed with, but I'm not sure whether my interpretations are on the money. Looking forward to finding out . . . The novel itself is primarily about a relationship between a surgeon, Tomas, and his one true love, Tereza. Tomas is a womanizer, and the story also envelops his lover, Sabina, as well as Tomas' and Tereza's dog, Karenin. The story jumps around in time and has dream sequences, so it's not the easiest to follow, but it does have some very heartfelt moments throughout. As an author, I'd characterize Kundera as insightful, but he seems to write in order to show how insightful he is as opposed to with the reader in mind. All in all, I am glad I read it and look forward to reading more analysis and discussing it with my book club. But I probably wouldn't go around recommending it except to people who really like authors who play with structure and who don't mind non-linear stories with "lessons". A narrow group of readers at best.
35 livres cultes à lire au moins une fois dans sa vie Quels sont les romans qu'il faut avoir lu absolument ? Un livre culte qui transcende, fait réfléchir, frissonner, rire ou pleurer… La littérature est indéniablement créatrice d’émotions. Si vous êtes adeptes des classiques, ces titres devraient vous plaire. De temps en temps, il n'y a vraiment rien de mieux que de se poser devant un bon bouquin, et d'oublier un instant le monde réel. Mais si vous êtes une grosse lectrice ou un gros lecteur, et que vous avez épuisé le stock de votre bibliothèque personnelle, laissez-vous tenter par ces quelques classiques de la littérature. This is a book to bring home how parochial and inward looking most fiction written in the English language is. There is no possible way that The Unbearable Lightness Of Being could have been written by a British or US author, or indeed any other anglophile. The mind set, the life experiences and especially the history it is written from are all too different. While the thrust of this book is by no means the same, I was reminded by its sensibility of the work of Bohumil Hrabal – not surprisingly also a Czech author. The book is unusual in another sense – it breaks most of the rules that aspiring writers are advised to adhere to. A lot of the action is told to us rather than shown, Kundera addresses the reader directly, inserts his opinions into the narrative, tells us his interpretations of the characters. He also messes with chronology (admittedly not a major drawback, if one at all) and parenthetically gives us important information about some characters in sections which ostensibly deal with others. In parts, especially in the author’s musings on kitsch as the denial of the existence of crap - in all its senses - in the world, it reads as a treatise rather than an exploration of the human condition. That is, at times it is not fiction at all. Kundera is highly regarded, so is this the essence of high art in fiction? That, as well as dealing with “important” subjects - or perhaps being considered to be circumscribed yet still endeavouring to tell truth to power (whatever truth may be) - the author should step beyond the bounds of narrative; of story? The problem with such an approach is that it tends to undermine suspension of disbelief. The characters become too obviously constructs; the reader is in danger of losing sympathy, or empathy, with them; or indeed to care. It is a fine line to tread. Where The Unbearable Lightness Of Being is not unusual is in its treatment of those novelistic eternals love, sex and death. Indeed at times it seems to be fixated on sex. While the exigencies of living in a totalitarian state do colour the narrative, the treatment is matter of fact, oblique, almost incidental. The choices the characters make merely fall within the constraints of such a system. It is true, however, that something similar could be said for characters in any milieu. There are constraints on us all. What I did find disappointing was that rather than finish, the book just seemed to stop. While the fates of the characters Kundera leaves us with are already known, this hardly seemed fair. "Leave them wanting more" may be an old showbiz adage but in the context of a one-off novel might be thought to be a failing. 1984 Milan Kundera L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être traduit du tchèque par F. Kérel, Gallimard «Cette sinueuse chute vers la mort, cette lente destruction mutuelle de deux êtres qui s'aiment sera aussi pour chacun d'eux [...] la récupération d'une certaine paix intérieure.» (Lire, février 1984) The world, and particularly that part of the world we used to call, with fine carelessness, eastern Europe, has changed profoundly since 1984, but Kundera's novel seems as relevant now as it did when it was first published. Relevance, however, is nothing compared with that sense of felt life which the truly great novelists communicate. The mind Mr. Kundera puts on display is truly formidable, and the subject of its concern is substantively alarming. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinSisältyy tähän:Mukaelmia:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaanPalkinnotDistinctionsNotable ListsHungarian Big Read (92) Waterstones Books of the Century (No 46 – 1997) Голямото четене (95)
"Olemisen sietämätön keveys on neljän keskieurooppalaisen sijaansa etsivän ihmisen tarina. Se on myös rakkauskertomus, syvimpiä ja kauneimpia mitä koskaan on kirjoitettu. Tomás, prahalainen kirurgi ja naistenmies, rakastuu päätäpahkaa herkkään hauraaseen tarjoilijattareen Terezaan. Hän haluaa tytön mutta myös vapautensa, kaikki hänelle kertyneet ihanat naiset. Heistä tärkein on Sabina, itsellinen taiteilija ja seikkailijatar. Vuosi 1968 viskoo ihmiset maailmalle. Genevessä Sabina solmii suhteen Franziin, keski-ikäiseen, osallistuvan polven tiedemieheen, jonka idealismi ulottuu koko maailmaan. Ihmiskohtalot kutoutuvat romaanissa kuvioksi, jonka moraaliset, intellektuaaliset, eroottiset ja poliittiset kosketuskohdat ovat ainutlaatuiset aikamme kirjallisuudessa." -- (takakansi) Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Suosituimmat kansikuvat
![]() LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:![]()
Oletko sinä tämä henkilö? |
Il romanzo esplora temi come l'amore, la libertà, la responsabilità, la morte e il significato dell'esistenza umana. In particolare, Kundera si concentra sulla difficoltà di trovare un senso nella vita in un mondo dove tutto è relativo e niente sembra avere un valore assoluto.
"L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" è considerato uno dei capolavori della letteratura del XX secolo e ha ottenuto un grande successo di critica e di pubblico. È stato tradotto in molte lingue e ha ispirato anche un film omonimo diretto da Philip Kaufman nel 1988.
Il romanzo è ambientato in parte a Praga, città natale di Kundera, e in parte a Ginevra, dove lo scrittore si trasferì negli anni '70 per sfuggire alla censura del regime comunista cecoslovacco.
"L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" è scritto in modo non lineare e utilizza un narratore onnisciente che si sofferma sui pensieri e le emozioni dei personaggi. Inoltre, Kundera inserisce frequentemente dei passaggi di riflessione filosofica e di critica sociale all'interno della narrazione.
Uno dei temi principali del romanzo è la relazione tra l'amore e la libertà. Tomas, il protagonista maschile, è un medico che ha una serie di relazioni extraconiugali, mentre Tereza, la protagonista femminile, è ossessionata dalla paura di essere abbandonata. La loro relazione si basa su un conflitto tra il desiderio di libertà di Tomas e la necessità di sicurezza di Tereza.
Un altro tema importante del romanzo è la morte, che viene presentata come un evento inevitabile e ineluttabile. Kundera suggerisce che la morte, in quanto fine ultimo dell'esistenza umana, conferisce un senso alla vita stessa.
"L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" è stato accolto molto positivamente dalla critica, che ha apprezzato la sua struttura narrativa complessa, la sua profondità psicologica e la sua capacità di esplorare temi universali come l'amore, la libertà e la morte. Il romanzo è stato tradotto in molte lingue ed è stato un grande successo di vendite in tutto il mondo.
Uno dei concetti filosofici centrali esplorati ne "L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" è l'idea di libertà e responsabilità individuale. Il romanzo esplora come le nostre scelte e azioni hanno conseguenze e come dobbiamo assumerci la responsabilità di tali conseguenze, anche se non sono intenzionali o indesiderabili. Questo tema è esemplificato nel personaggio di Tomas, che deve affrontare le conseguenze delle sue infedeltà e il danno che provocano a se stesso e agli altri.
Un altro concetto chiave del romanzo è l'idea dell'amore e il suo rapporto con la libertà e l'impegno. Il romanzo suggerisce che l'amore è una forza fondamentalmente ambigua e complessa, capace di portare gioia e appagamento, ma anche dolore e sofferenza. I personaggi lottano per bilanciare il loro desiderio di libertà e indipendenza con il loro bisogno di connessione e intimità, portando a scelte difficili e conflitti.
Il romanzo esplora anche la natura della memoria e il ruolo che svolge nel plasmare le nostre identità e percezioni della realtà. I personaggi sono alle prese con la fallibilità e l'inaffidabilità della memoria e come può essere manipolata e distorta. Questo tema è esemplificato nel personaggio di Sabina, che è ossessionata dai ricordi del suo passato e lotta per riconciliarli con la sua vita presente.
Nel complesso, "L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" è un'opera ricca e complessa che si confronta con un'ampia gamma di concetti e temi filosofici, invitando i lettori a riflettere sulla natura dell'esistenza umana, la libertà, l'amore e la memoria. (