


Franz and Sabina are having an affair Franz does not love his wife, Marie-Claude. Part three is titled “Words Misunderstood.” It opens with Franz, who is a professor living and teaching in Geneva. They photograph one another nude in Sabina’s studio. At the end of part two, Sabina and Tereza are becoming close friends, and Sabina gets Tereza a job at the magazine where she works. Kundera also shares Tereza’s dreams, which are troubling and usually include Tomas. Her father died in jail as a political prisoner, and her mother was abusive. The reader learns a lot about Tereza’s family. The second part of the novel, “Soul and Body,” retells the story so far from Tereza’s point of view. When Tereza finds out that Tomas is still seeing Sabina, she leaves for Prague, and Tomas follows. He and Tereza move to Zurich, where they flourish for six months. A Swiss doctor repeatedly calls Tomas, asking him to come to Switzerland too. In 1968, the Russians occupy Czechoslovakia, causing Sabina to leave for Switzerland. She possesses a deep understanding of Tomas and even becomes a good friend of Tereza’s. Tomas continues to have affairs especially significant is his erotic friendship with Sabina, who is an artist. Together they get a puppy, named Karenin. Despite the distress Tomas’s mistresses cause Tereza, she and Tomas marry. Weight is associated with Tereza’s love, and lightness with Tomas’s. Here, the theme of weight and lightness are evident. Despite his love for her, he engages in relationships he refers to as erotic friendships.

The object of his affections is a young woman named Tereza.

Nietzsche says that the eternal return is a heavy burden-the heaviest, actually-but without it, life is meaningless. Basically, this means that something that happens only once might as well not have happened. The first part, called “Lightness and Weight,” begins with Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal return and with what Nietzsche calls einmal ist keinmal. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is a novel told in seven parts.
