"Beauty is a world betrayed"

Story of the suffering which the purity or simply the desire for purity. Exploration of love between physical desire and commitment more difficult to define: "Love does not manifest the desire to make love (that desire applies to an innumerable multitude of women) but by the desire of co-sleeping (this desire relates to only one woman). "

Kundera and tells us the relation of Tomas, which in its lightness, seeks "millionth dissimilar in every woman," that each has "unimaginable" and Tereza, a prisoner of his quest for purity. The around the Prague Spring.

The unbearable lightness evokes a cross between Nietzsche and Zweig: chiseled text, ability to make a nothing story, sense of observation and the formula, treatment with a brilliant and sometimes caustic detachment, but always lightly. Kundera My first and certainly not my last.