Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

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  So in 1984, there was a Czechoslovakian writer that would create a book that would become legendary.

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  This was a man that by this point in his life had not only been exiled from his home country for the work he did,

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  he had been kicked out of the Communist Party twice

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  because his ideas were so against what it stood for.

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  But this was also a man that chose to give up everything he had in life multiple times simply to keep writing about what he believed was most important to be writing about.

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  The author was Milan Kundera, and the book was called The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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  By the end of the episode,

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  we'll understand the kinds of ideas he wrote about that got him this sort of wonderful treatment in the first place.

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  This episode is designed to be a kind of philosophical guide for someone that's trying to read this book,

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  but it also stands alone as just a collection of the philosophy of Kundera during this time period.

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  I mean, either way,

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  people always ask me for a first book that they can read

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  if they're trying to get into philosophy more,

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  something that's maybe funny, interesting.

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  Well, this book would be a really good candidate for that if you were looking for one.

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  But as always, this podcast is not supposed to be a replacement for reading the actual book.

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