The Unbearable Lightness of Being

《不能承受的生命之轻》是米兰·昆德拉的代表作。小说描写了托马斯与特丽莎、萨丽娜之间的感情生活。但是，它绝不是一个男人和两个女人的三角性爱故事，它 是一部哲理小说，小说从“永恒轮回”的讨论开始，把我们带入了对一系列问题的思考中，比如，轻与重，比如，灵与肉，它带领着我们思考——什么才是人类不能 承受的生命之轻？它更是一部意象繁复的书，其中装载了多种涵义：被政治化了的社会内涵的揭示、人性考察、个人命运在特定历史与政治语境下的呈现，以及对两 性关系本质上的探索等。昆德拉极其聪明地将这些元素糅合在一起，写成一部非同凡响的小说——其中既有隐喻式的哲学思考，也有人的悲欢离合的生命历程的展 现。 A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. 点击链接进入中文版： 不能承受的生命之轻