Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting
##It was a coincidence that I picked up this book, of which the Chinese version I read in high school, right after finishing a D.H. Lawrence book. Now I am tired with masculinity, and with no ability to think straight about these men's portrayal of women. Sex, desire, honesty to oneself, physical passion are impossible to be picked apart.
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##从头高潮到尾,我觉得昆德拉的中短篇比长篇还好看!
##中途
##我觉得Kundera的伟大之处在于他对于作家身份的exploration。
##我觉得Kundera的伟大之处在于他对于作家身份的exploration。
##Never liked Kundera, but this book changed my impression, just a little bit.
##But are tanks really more important than pears? … Tanks are perishable, pears are eternal.
##The hope for humanity seen as the "mankind's oldest desire, humanity's most conservative conservatism." To laugh, and to forget, and to laught and forget, can't agree entirely on kundera' s perspectives on misogyny and sexual liberty, but its something to think about.