The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel W. Norton they attempt to move on

they attempt to move on

張文薰（臺大臺文所副教授）

《好笑的爱》是米兰•昆德拉整个小说创作的出发点，预示了昆德拉所有重要的复现主题：自我哄骗和幻象，性欲和爱的滑稽，公共领域和私人领域之间的辩证关系，历史、青春和抒情诗，记忆和遗忘，笑（包括“玩笑”的概念），不能承受的生命之轻的悖论……

此书之于20世纪，一如《社会契约论》之于18世纪，《资本论》之于19世纪。

《香港文學》第二九五期，二〇〇九年七月

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel W. Norton they attempt to move onA young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its