I read that and thought, “Don’t do this Milan,” but it got even cringier: We need take no more note of it than of a war between two African kingdoms in the fourteenth century …” “Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow … whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, it’s horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing. I remembered vaguely that the novel started with a discussion of Nietzsche’s theory of Eternal Return, and toward the bottom of the page, citing an example of what would be a completely meaningless historical event, Kundera works into his discussion of the theory a hypothetical war in Africa. The first red flag popped up on page 1, which alarmed me. I did finish and mostly enjoy the book, but it started off inauspiciously. I’ve never had that happen while reading a novel before, maybe the spine of my copy was a stand-in for Communism!įirst, the short-comings, most of which were forgivable. About two-thirds of the way through, my copy split into two halves.
The pages were stiff as corpses and nearly the color of coffee. The copy on my bookshelf was in pretty bad shape. I hadn’t thought about it much at all since probably the early 90s, the last time I read it. I picked Unbearable Lightness up on a lark, maybe it was a bit of a nostalgia play. Since the app deleted a bunch of notes, I’ve seen other people report similar issues online.) My phone died, and I lost many of my notes, including the note I had going for this novel.
This review will be a bit less detailed than I’d hoped.
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