6 Reasons to Read ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ Right Now
8 min readMar 24, 2018
A famous 20th century novel of ideas provides unexpected illumination for the early 21st century.
Originally published in 1984, Milan Kundera’s most famous book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, examines how a police state gnarled the existentialist journey of its main characters. After Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the newly emboldened…
