不能承受的生命之轻

不能承受的生命之轻The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1、读这本书的原因

2、简介

3、读后感及解决了你的什么困惑（your feeling)

人永远都无法知道该要什么，因为人只能活一次，既不能拿它跟前世相比，也不能在来生加以修正。

只能活一次，就跟根本没有活一样。

People never know what they really want ，since you can only survive in one time，you can not compare the present with the previous time，and also can not revise more perfect in the future。

Only being in one time，like never comes into being the world

Premise

The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place mainly in in the late 1960s and 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society during the Communist period, from the Prague Spring to the ’s and its aftermath. The main characters are Tomáš, a surgeon; his wife Tereza, a photographer anguished by her husband's infidelities; Tomáš’s lover Sabin a, a free-spirited artist; Franz, a Swiss university professor and lover of Sabina; and Šimon, Tomáš’ estranged son from an earlier marriage.

Plot

The Unbearable Lightness of Being introduces Czech brain surgeon Tomas (), a who is a successful medical doctor in Communist Czechoslovakia. His lover, Sabina (), is an equally care-free artist. One day, Dr Tomas leaves Prague to operate on a man in a . There, he meets the waitress Tereza (), who dreams of escaping her small town life. She follows him to Prague and cohabits with him, complicating Tomas's extra-domestic sexual affairs.

Tomas asks Sabina to help Tereza find work as a photographer. Tereza is fascinated and jealous as she grasps that Sabina and Tomas are lovers. Her distress about his is interrupted by the Soviet Army tanks invading Czechoslovakia. Amidst the confusion, Tereza photographs the Soviet invasion, then hands the rolls of film to foreigners to smuggle to the West. Facing the stultifying reality that replaced the Prague Spring, Tomas, Sabina, and Tereza flee Czechoslovakia for Switzerland; first Sabina, then the hesitant Tomas and Tereza.

In , Sabina meets Franz (), a married university professor; they begin a love affair. After some time, he decides to abandon his wife and family for her. After hearing the declaration, Sabina abandons Franz, feeling he would emotionally weigh her down. Meanwhile, Tereza and Tomas attempt to adapt to Switzerland, whose people Tereza finds inhospitable. When she discovers that Tomas continues womanizing, she leaves him and Switzerland, and returns to Czechoslovakia. Upset by her leaving, Tomas follows Tereza to Czechoslovakia, where his passport is confiscated, locking him in-country; nevertheless, his return elates Tereza. They are re-united.

In , Tomas tries recovering his old brain surgeon hospital job, but the Soviet-backed régime