Whether it is Tomas" illicit sexual encounters, Tereza's vivid photography of the Soviet occupation of Prague, or Sabina's avant garde art forms, the characters in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being all follow this and several of Nietzsche's other dictums in practically every action that they take in his novel. ... These three main characters; Tomas, Tereza, and Sabina; each seek and attain their own equilibrium, their own "lightness of being", through personal journeys of discovery with each other that are both solitary and interdependent. ... W...

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