Showing posts with label Kundera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kundera. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2011

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

This is the second Kundera book I have read, and I just love him! This book was no exception. The story was pretty simple, and one thing I loved/hated about it was the repetition. I am of two minds of this because I thought it was kind of cool how everything kept coming back around to the same things, but at the same time, I was like "Oka, I get it...baby in a bulrush basket..let's move on!!" But it is one of the things Kundera does, repetition, and he does it well. The story follows on couple, and a few people (plus a dog), who surround them in their relationship. It is a very quick read, because it is written simply, but that does not make the content whatsoever simple. It is actually very easy to get lost because of the simplicity. I found myself constantly re-reading a passage because I missed something, even if it is a repetition, you miss something by just breezing over. This book takes a close read, and I think maybe if I read it again, I will get a lot more out of it, just the way I felt with the first book I read from him, "Ignorance". After two readings of this book I felt like I enjoyed it the first time, and understood it better the second time.