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.

I never heard of this novel until I have seen the movie of same name starter Daniel Day-Lewis.But after that it’s being a haunting journey of love and lust.

It’s a morden classic novel by by Milan Kundera, about a man and two women and their lives in the Prague .Tomas,a Czech surgeon and intellectual. He is a light-hearted womanizer who lives for his work,He considers sex and love to be distinct entities, he copulates with many women but loves only his wife, Tereza.Tereza,a intellectual photographer, she delves into dangerous and dissident photojournalism during the Soviet occupation of Prague.Sabina,Tomas favorite mistress and closest friend. Sabina lives her life as an extreme example of lightness, finding profound satisfaction in the act of betrayal.

A man torn between thought and emotion, between love and lust. A woman who lives for rebellion. Another whose body is simply an amplifier for her emotions.For Teresa, love and sex go together, whereas Tomas believes that having sex without love is possible. The female protagonist therefore suffers from the heaviness of life, while her male counterpart feels the unbearable lightness of being.

The very fact that they stay together and seem to find some degree of happiness illustrates that an acceptance of a relationship that falls well short of satisfying and fulfilling hopes, is possible.The novel is an attempt to identify what makes us need companionship in life so badly, trying to understand the relationships between the conflicting desires that humans possess and act upon. What makes a man leave the woman that he loves and is perfectly happy with and seek something intangible in the arms of a mistress?Why does the same man sacrifice everything he has – freedom, social status, and his life’s work – only to go back to the same woman he absolutely had to leave before? Is the absence of any responsibilities and ties in life really a “lightness”?

“How can life ever be a good teacher if there is only one of them to be lived? How can one perform life when the dress rehearsal for life is life?”