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	The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czech language: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a novel written by Milan Kundera in 1984.
		According to Kundera, "being" is full of "unbearable lightness" because each of us has only one life to live: "Einmal ist Keinmal" ("once is never", i.e., "what happened once might as well have never happened at all").
		It should be noted that Kundera considers his novels unsuited to being turned into movies; in his opinion, they lose their essential qualities in the process, leaving only the accessory stories to produce any intrigue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being (401 words)

	Sermon » "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" » March 6, 2005
		Although unbearable lightness of being is an ambiguous goal in the movie, for Paul it is the only goal.
		For Paul, Light is renewal, decisive and radical transformation, the defining state of the followers of Jesus Christ.
		When Tomas turns on the light in their room, "a large nocturnal butterfly" rises from the bedside lamp and circles the room in which they are alone with their happiness and their sadness.
	www.noevalleyministry.org /sermons/2005/030605.html (1303 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		Kundera says Sabina lives by betrayal, abandoning family, lovers and, finally, country, in a way that condemns her to what he calls a ''lightness of being,'' by which he means a life so lacking in commitment or fidelity or moral responsibility to anyone else as to be unattached to the real earth.
		By contrast, his fourth character, Tereza, the loyal wife of Tomas, suffers an unflagging love for her philandering husband that finally is responsible for his ruin, because it's her unwillingness to live in exile that brings him back to his fate in Czechoslovakia after he has set himself up nicely in a Swiss hospital.
		The paradox of the essential identity of opposites describes an intractable world in which human beings are deprived of a proper context for their humanity.
	www.kundera.de /english/Bibliography/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Be/the_unbearable_lightness_of_be.html (2034 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Criterion (1988)
		An intimate epic, The Unbearable Lightness of Being charts the frontiers of relationships with wit, emotion, and devastating honesty.
		The same goes for Unbearable, which depicts the negative effects of the Soviet oppression in a reasonably objective and detached manner.
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /unbearablelightnessofbeing.shtml (1503 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Light but sound
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being had a remarkable success when it was published in English in 1984 (this autumn will see an anniversary edition from Faber).
		When The Unbearable Lightness was published, its author had been living for many years in France, and the book evinces more the influence of Rousseau and Stendhal than of Kafka or the Capeks.
		In The Unbearable Lightness he writes of one of the characters, the Czech painter Sabina who lives now in America, being taken for a drive by a US senator who stops to allow his young children to play on the grass in the sunshine.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1206567,00.html (971 words)

	The Jujube Spotlight - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		I first saw "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" when I was a junior in college, shortly after it came out.
		His connection to the world is "light:" adamantly unattached to anything, he can come and go as he pleases, take or leave what he will, and feel only the trifling amount of guilt or regret his airy relationships demand.
		Unlike Tomas' profession, which allows him to interact with human beings in a detached fashion, Tereza's occupation as a photographer reflects her willingness to be personally acquainted with the pains and struggles of other people.
	archive.thejujube.com /U-V/unbearablelightness.html (747 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		"Being" itself is even discussed from the very beginning, as the title indicates, and perhaps I should explain that: In the very first pages, before we meet any characters, Kundera discusses some philosophical principles about the nature of life, being, eternity, reincarnation, lightness and heaviness.
		He cites Nietzsche calling the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens, eternal return being the notion--the hypothetical situation, even--that everything we do, as individuals and as an entire world, is repeated endlessly once it comes into existence, and therefore has terribly heavy significance.
		The love Tomas bears his wife Tereza is deep and often unbearable (there's that word again), as he cannot bring himself to stop his womanizing despite the torment it brings her--for he does not connect these rendezvous with love.
	home.earthlink.net /~ladyirony/kundera.html (1440 words)

	SparkNotes: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Plot Overview
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being opens with a philosophical discussion of lightness versus heaviness.
		The uncertain existence of meaning, and the opposition of lightness and heaviness, the key dichotomy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, sets the stage for the entire novel.
		The protagonist, Tomas, a brilliant Prague surgeon, pursues a philosophy of lightness in his erotic adventures and exploits.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/unbearablelightness/summary.html (987 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now, the people at Criterion have chosen The Unbearable Lightness of Being for their first anamorphic widescreen release in a special edition that includes commentary from Kaufman, Carriere, editor Walter Murch, and co-star Lena Olin.
		When Unbearable Lightness does heat up, it is because of the passionate performances by Olin and Binoche, both warm in their very different ways where Day-Lewis is cold.
		The only extra feature on the disc is the audio commentary, but it's a good one, with all four speakers bringing their own areas of expertise to it.
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	'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (R)
		"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" leaves an afterimage as insistent as a flashbulb's ghost.
		A marriage of art house and Hollywood, "Unbearable Lightness" has the glitzy garter belt look of "Cabaret" and the somber Angst of Bergman.
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being is rated R for nudity and adult situations
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	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many of the people had seen the Czech invasion footage before from the Soviet point of view - reedited to show the Soviet invaders as the heroes and the Czechs as the rebels.
		from Saint Paul, MN One of the most romantic films ever made, it shows the problems of people whose intimacies and personal conflicts are being interrupted by history on the move.
		I think this film surpasses the novel, which is utterly cynical (although understandably).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0096332 (513 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being focuses on Tomas (Daniel-Day Lewis), a Don Juanist terrified of commitment and a surgeon at a Prague hospital.
		Teresa is haunted by terrible nightmares and suicidal urges brought on by a love of Tomas clashing with a hatred of his "lightness" or the ability to view sex as entertainment and not commitment.
		Teresa is unable, of course, to feel this lightness, and instead is only faced with an increasing sadness as she fails again and again.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/VideoHome/79FB55B74956F5C6882567C4000C01EA/?OpenDocument (898 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera
		THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera
		Milan Kundera's masterful novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), tells the interlocking stories of these four relationships, with a primary focus on Tomas, a man torn between his love for Tereza, his wife, and his incorrigible "erotic adventures," particularly his long-time affair with the internationally noted painter, Sabina.
		Coping with both the consequences of their own actions and desires and the intruding demands of society and the state, Kundera's characters struggle to construct lives of individual value and lasting meaning.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/unbearable_lightness_of_being.asp (623 words)

	USATODAY.com - The unforgettable 'Lightness of Being' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated from the Czech, caused a stir when it was published in the USA in 1984.
		The story revolves around two men and two women whose lives are a blur of infidelity, control, chance, love, sex, burden, lightness, the ephemeral and the prospect of eternal return.
		Kundera was born in 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-05-12-lightness-of-being_x.htm (347 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		Tomas isn't, and his "lightness" is unbearable to her.
		Hank and June was rated NC-17 (the first film ever to receive that rating, I believe), and Unbearable Lightness had to be near the upper limits of "R" as well.
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) was made before the breakup of the Soviet Union, and told the very politically controversial story of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
	www.fakes.net /unbearablelightness.htm (1507 words)

	Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
		The female protagonist therefore suffers from the heaviness of life, while her male counterpart feels the unbearable lightness of being.
		What is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being?" It is the realization that, with no hope of knowing the right path from the wrong, there can be no wrong path.
	bookreviews.nabou.com /reviews/unbearable_lightness_kundera.html (903 words)

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		'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Ernest' is arguably the greatest achievement of the 21st Century.
		Conceived as a 'Greatest Hits' compilation of the best sketches that people might not have seen, the sketches were put through rigorous rehearsals and performed before a capacity crowd at the Exeter Phoenix on March the 8th 2002.
		The cast of The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Ernest was:- Richard Clarke, Tom Davies, Dean Froud, Zoe Graham, Dave Holby, Matthew Johnson, Luke Kennard, Will Lowry, Fran Moulds, Jenny Sutton, Russell Totten and Fiona White.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The film tells the love story of Tomas and Tereza in the context of the events of 1968, and there are shots that place the characters in the middle of the riots against the Russian invaders.
		"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" carries the feeling of deep nostalgia, of a time no longer present, when these people did these things and hoped for happiness, and were caught up in events beyond their control.
		What is remarkable about "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," however, is not the sexual content itself, but the way Kaufman has been able to use it as an avenue for a complex story, one of nostalgia, loss, idealism and romance.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19880205/REVIEWS/802050305/1023 (962 words)

	Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Review (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being, as the name suggests, is more at home with the miserable aspects of its story.
		Despite the setting of the late sixties, the self-expression of sexual freedom is born less from any spirit of the times, and more from the personalities of the main characters - their sexual adventures are supposed to set them free from the, er, "heavier" concerns of life.
		Then came The Wanderers, The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the controversial Henry and June, Rising Sun, Marquis de Sade drama Quills and thriller Twisted.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=306 (657 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera - HarperAcademic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera - HarperAcademic
		Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
		The above is excerpted from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
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	SparkNotes: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Context
		In escalating steps of persecution, he lost his position as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematography Studies in Prague, his books were banned, and his life was made unbearable in ways similar to the persecution endured by his protagonist Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
		In the 1970s, due to a change in the regime's policies, dissident intellectuals were "encouraged" to leave Czechoslovakia and emigrate to the West.
		In The Unbearable Lightness of Being especially, Kundera expressly equates kitsch, or bad, unoriginal and non-genuine sentimentalist art, with totalitarian regimes.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/unbearablelightness/context.html (573 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
		When I first watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I was dating a poet who had read and loved the book.
		Sabina, on the other hand, is having to deal with her very first tinges of jealousy as the only man she may have ever truly loved is now obviously in love with another woman.
		Instead, she herself attempts to experience this "lightness of being", trying modeling for nude photographs by and taking nude photographs of Sabina and a very unsuccessful adultery with an Engineer.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/1988_The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.html (781 words)

	'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (R)
		In Milan Kundera's novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," the characters are pawns on a complex, philosophical chessboard with Kundera's didactic commentary accompanying every move.
		The novel's connecting tissue is Kundera's omniscient eye -- sometimes deadly serious, sometimes light, sometimes tedious, always swooping in and out of a character's little dilemmas.
		In the film, the characters and events are part of an episodic, classy soap opera, which could have been called "The Man Who Loved Women" (with the subtitle: "While Many Other Things Happened").
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/unbearablelightnessofbeing.htm (463 words)

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being Movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a sensual and sensitive adaptation of Milan Kundera's tragicomic existentialist novel that follows the story of Thomas (Daniel Day Lewis), a womanizing Czech doctor in 1968 Prague, prior to the Soviet invasion, whose sexual appetite is never fully satisfied.
		Philip Kaufman's film tells the erotic story of a womanizing Czech doctor in 1968 Prague, prior to the Soviet invasion, whose sexual appetite is never fully satisfied.
		Tomas realizes he cannot live without her and must decide how important his personal and sexual freedom really is to him.
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	The unbearable lightness of being cute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Babies, small children, puppies, kittens and the like cannot be held responsible for being just as cute as all get-out because it goes with the territory.
		Of course, it is easy being cute when you are a kid; the trick is to do it when you are 57.
		I am shame-faced to admit that I have not seen this movie, despite being a fond admirer of the heffalump and the other denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05060/464245.stm (797 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a profoundly beguiling movie about sex, love, and rebellion.
		The triumph of The Unbearable Lightness of Being is that Kaufman and company choreograph the diverse segments of Kundera’s fiction like a folk dance, a rock musical, and a pastoral ballet.
		You could say that Tomas is a non-dancer who does one heartbreaking dance—with his wife—before he dies.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=55&eid=71§ion=essay (264 words)

	Unbearable Lightness Of Being, The (Widescreen, Special Edition) - Wal-Mart
		Prague surgeon and avowed womanizer Tomas is focused on the happiness of pursuit.
		He's determined to live with a lightness of being unfettered by things like commitment and Communism.
		A young doctor's quest for sex and his stumbling into love are part of the rich storyline of this lyrical film from the landmark Milan Kundera novel, produced by Saul Zaentz ("The English Patient," "Amadeus") and directed by Philip Kaufman ("The Right Stuff," "Henry & June").
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