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        The Unbearable Lightness of Being


        setting

        Prague, Czechoslovak history

        time

        1968

        language

        French

        region

        Eastern Europe

        year published

        1985

        page count

        393

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Tomáš, Tereza, Sabina, Franz

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)