An entity you cannot bear its lightness

The world of Milan Kundera's novelist moves between a set of poles, lightness and heaviness, soul and body, strength and weakness, the angels' laughter because everything has a meaning, and the demons' laughter because the whole world has no meaning. In his most famous novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," the poles of lightness and heaviness come to the center, and everything revolves around them. The novel, which begins with a question for the character Thomas, who is standing staring at a wall, asking: Should Teresa be invited to his house, risking burdening his life with love, or should he let her pass and forget her as another fleeting specter? It does not take long before this question leads to a broader one: what is better: a life we live hiding from all heaviness, feelings, and meaning, floating in the air with nothing anchoring us to the ground, or another in which our steps are drawn according to the gravity of heavy meanings and feelings? The book is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."