The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film) Puns

Hi all, I'm wondering what breed of dog it is that plays the character Karenin in the film adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I have attached a few links to pictures for those who haven't seen the movie!

https://dogwithblog.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unbearable-lightness-of-being.jpg

https://jabrody.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/unbearable-3.jpg

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-1987-juliette-binoche-ulb-002-29265050.html

Thanks for the input!

I was reading the book when I noticed something very appealing about its style. I love it when books organize their chapters into small burst-like mini chapters that last for one and half pages or less.

It’s aligned with my commitment issues with book chapters and obsession that I can not put down a book mid chapter. Reading another chapter always depends on how long the new chapter is and whether I have enough time to finish it or not.

Also, it reinforces my sense of achievement when finishing a lot of mini chapters in one sitting.

I hope some people here share my love for books like that.

I made a post earlier about Earthlings, thank you for everyone’s suggestions. The intro to the documentary reminded me of a part of one of my favorite books. I see snippets have been posted but I feel you really need the full quote to get the entirety of the message, so I figured I’d share.

‘The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars…

…Man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on a man: We have sucked their udders like leeches. “Man – the cow parasite” is probably how non-man defines man in his zoology books.

Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man’s care. Man was not the planet’s master, merely its administrator, and therefore eventually responsible for his administration.

There’s no particular merit in being nice to one’s fellow man. [Tereza] had to treat the other villagers decently, because otherwise she couldn’t live there. Even with Tomas, she was obliged to behave lovingly because she needed him. We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions – love, antipathy, charity, or malice – and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

As long as people lived in the country, in nature, surrounded by domestic animals, in the bosom of regularly recurring s

I don't really get this part. every time i read it i think i get it. then i get confused.

>Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

They're so good, so I'm looking for more books like these... I've received several recommendations of Houellebecq's books, so I'll give it a try. If you can suggest me any it'll be really appreciated, I wanna dive more deeply into this kind of genre.

• "the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love.. one day the eyes of their beloved will close and the room will go dark."
• "what is flirtation? one might say that it is the behavior leading another to believe that sexual intimacy is possible, while preventing that possibility from becoming a certainty.. flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee"
• "a person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person"
• "Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars"
• ***MY FAVORITE QUOTE - "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals."
• in 1889: "Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears."

***This book was assigned to me in my freshman year of college when I challenged myself to take Existentialism. These quotes stuck out to me enough to save them. I would love to discuss these quotes and the novel :)

I just finished reading it and I loved the way its written and how unusual his style is. If you have a book that has a similar feel to it (the way the characters are portrayed, the way its written, how it paints a picture of the settings and all its philosophy), I’d really appreciate it!

I’m going to read Milan’s other works of course. Something that has the similar dynamic of love, lust and philosophy. (21M)

Read the book for the first time a couple of years ago and it's still my favorite book of all time. I have read other books by Kundera, but am looking for other authors that may have similar work. Thanks!!!

Also a huge fan of J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour.

Thanks in advance.

Has anyone here read it? I'd been meaning to for years, and finally started today based on Chris's recommendation and that I'm heading to Prague in a couple weeks. It's great so far.

I also finished Sex at Dawn recently. This is probably the one place where I don't need to go on about how great it is, so I'll just say "thanks, Chris!" in case he's reading.

Why would Roz of all people find it boring?? It's so passionate, you'd think she'd appreciate it?

>A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

>Today, of course, the body is no longer unfamiliar: we know that the beating in our chest is the heart and that the nose is the nozzle of a hose sticking out of the body to take oxygen to the lungs. The face is nothing but an instrument panel registering all the body mechanisms: digestion, sight, hearing, respiration, thought.

>Ever since man has learned to give each part of the body a name, the body has given him less trouble. He has also learned that the soul is nothing more than the gray matter of the brain in action. The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.

>But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.

Hello,

Today all of us over at r/ReadingBuffs have started our first book club reading, and we are reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. So if any of you are interested in discovering the book with us, or have already read the book and would just like to join the discussion, then feel free to join us. We'd love to have more people involved.

Here is a link to the book club thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReadingBuffs/comments/6wlc3y/official_book_club_thread_post_all_your_thoughts/?st=j6whyirl&sh=023f11a1

With that in mind, we are not solely a book club. We are part book club, part book chat room. So if you are looking for a more close-nit community to discuss books and have lively discussions about literature, then we'd love for you to join.

Thanks!

I didnt read something so good in a long time.it was recommended to me few years ago,but i always thought it was some political and pseudo philosophical mumble jumble.I finally took it couple days ago,and oh boy.I was positively surprised by the way author incorporated so many ideas one novel.Astounding

The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3, Analecta Husserliana Volume 28, 1989, pp 535-557

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2335-5_27

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-009-2335-5_27