The Unbearable Lightness of Being

This is my second Kundera novel after 'Ignorance'. The characters were read and forgotten but what came alive was the fraility of actions, time, doing. What seems to be burdensome and irrevocable as a past action, history now passes onto us as something that happened once and has no power of repetition and will not exist tomorrow. The moment is the only truth which make you feel the 'unbearable lightness' of your existence. 'Einmal ist keinmal' - what happened once might as well not happened at all , lays out the tone of the book. The speculations of the communist run Czech-the effect of russian invasion on the life of eastern europeans is well depicted.