"Light" refers to the human spirit, and "heavy" refers to the human body.

This sentence means: all kinds of hardships in life: such as oppression, suppression, being insulted and damaged, absurd encounters, hunger, and a series of things that cause mental or physical pain and unbearableness. Things that seem as light as a feather are overwhelming. Life is so thin and light that it cannot bear an excessive burden.

1. Source

This sentence comes from the 1984 novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Czech-French writer Milan Kunder. The novel is set in Prague and touches on quite a few philosophical concepts. Milan Kundera thus established his status as the world's greatest living writer.

2. Introduction

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is recognized as the most popular bestseller in the world. It is also Kundera's most popular and acclaimed work. A work in which Kundera's talent is epitomized. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" describes the complex story of the ill-fated fate of ordinary intellectuals during the Soviet invasion of the Czech Republic in 1968, when the atmosphere of democratic reform evolved into a trend of arbitrary oppression.

The novel describes the emotional life between Thomas, Teresa and Salina. However, it is by no means a love triangle story between a man and two women. It is a philosophical novel. The novel starts from the discussion of "eternal reincarnation" and brings us into thinking about a series of issues, such as lightness and Heaviness, such as spirit and flesh, leads us to think - what is the lightness of life that humans cannot bear? The meaning is far-reaching. Reading it, you can understand the power of wisdom, but it is never boring.

3. Appreciation

Kundera started from one or two keywords and basic situations to form the plot of the novel. With the wisdom of a philosopher, he raised the human survival situation to the highest level. Metaphysics is highly considered, examined and described; thus it successfully grasps the two sensitive areas of politics and sex, and initially forms a novel style of "humor" and "polyphony".

4. About the author

Milan Kundera, novelist, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He has settled in France since 1975. The novels "Joke", "Living Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Record of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Immortality", as well as the short story collection "Funny Love" are written in the author's native Czech language The text is written. His latest novels "Slowness", "Identity" and "Ignorance" and essay collections "The Art of Novel" and "The Testament Betrayed" are written in French. "Jacques and His Master" is the author's representative drama.