Through his poetry, his gentle and mild melancholy, deep reflection on men-women relations and their existential questions, the question of communism or the meaning of life, Milan Kundera offers us a novel of love and grandiose thinking .
This novel begins in Prague and takes place in the context of Czechoslovakia the Prague Spring and the invasion by the USSR.
Here we follow the trail to the various characters or singular characters, which intersect in the "Mitteleuropa", between love and disillusion, grandeur or meanness, with a truth and a deep vitality.
Their ways of life and Succeeding their destinies are asked to reflect on the human condition, freedom, but above all the lightness or gravity.
As the name suggests, the novel instead the central reflection on the "lightness" and its opposite, "gravity" from the definition of Parmenides, that of a noble and saving weight and a low gravity.
Moreover, its structure in short chapters, the novel moves from one scene to another, from one character to another for easier and more enjoyable reading.
Personally, the last part, which revolves around the dog's death touched me particularly and death hangs over these men.
By its depth and tragic in the sweetness, but always relentless, as the fate of all the characters, but must live in the light, under so difficult to support and which the ancient Greeks wore as a supreme virtue, this novel gives life the Parmenides theory, communism and ideology against empiricism, abstraction and brain against reality.
Being just seems the way to lightness face towards higher concepts of property, Dorgueil.
I advise strongly this beautiful novel, which will not leave you unmoved, thanks to a successful narrative structure, a pleasant style and unforgettable characters.
In this novel, Milan Kundera has touched the most beautiful, the most noble and most difficult virtue of this grace that is the lightness.
