![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After he is relieved of his post as a surgeon, after getting into difficulties with the government about a critical letter he wrote that was published in a newspaper, he is employed as a window-cleaner, and seems to spend his work days having sex with his clients. Despite his genuine love for Tereza, he is serially unfaithful. Tomáš is a womaniser, I’d even go so far as to say a sex addict, whom I did not warm to. Other characters are Sabina, an artist, and Tomáš’s lover (one of them!), and Sabina’s lover Franz. The main protagonists are Tomáš, a surgeon, his wife Tereza, and their dog Karenin. This was for political reasons as the novel is set against the background of the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, when the Soviet Army occupied the country. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is considered a classic in that particular category it was first published in 1984, in French translation, and not in the original Czech until 1985, but outside the then Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia. This was my choice for September in my Facebook Reading Challenge, the theme of which was a novel by an Eastern European writer. ![]()
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