Therefore, it can be said that the plot of Kundera's novels is fragmented, which requires readers to chew and integrate repeatedly before they can be connected in series. He himself said, "If the reader misses a sentence in my novel, he can't understand my novel."
This is also the charm of Kundera's works. He hopes that when reading his novels, readers can stop at any time to observe and appreciate the quiet and winding scenery along the way, and at the same time they can meditate and sing.
Because of this, many people find his books difficult to read, let alone read quickly. Of course, it is even more difficult to understand that he uses fragmented stories to serve speculation and philosophy, which is difficult to understand at the moment. The reflection and exploration of profound problems such as society, humanity, politics and self, and the wisdom and philosophy that are hidden and presented in time also need readers to think and chew repeatedly.
The unbearable lightness of life is Milan? Kundera's masterpiece of the world. Many people interpret this super-weighty philosophy book from different angles. I am more concerned about the fate and pain of the heroine Teresa, who, like thousands of women today, is looking for her own life in pain. After watching it several times in a row, I sorted out her life course and attached my thoughts. Please enjoy.
Teresa has never been loved by her mother since she was born. There is a simple reason. She brought misfortune to her mother for the rest of her life. Teresa was born in an accident when her mother was a teenager, forcing her to enter marriage reluctantly. After giving birth to Teresa, all kinds of misfortunes followed, so she blamed it on her daughter. Without Teresa, she will have a better marriage, and Teresa is a big mistake that she can't make up for.
She thus deprived Teresa of all qualifications with independent personality and dignity, such as not letting Teresa study: What qualifications do you have to study; For example, even if her stepfather is at home, Teresa won't close the door when using the bathroom: the human body is just a machine for digestion and excretion. How are you different from others?
Teresa is deeply grateful to her mother. In order to compensate for her great sacrifice, she obeyed everything, went to work in a bar, took care of her half-sister and did housework. She silently endured and obeyed, but deeply felt as if she were living in a concentration camp, and she had a strong resistance and a desire to run away from home and find her own soul. Usually, she can only borrow books from the library to avoid the vulgar world around her.
One day, busy in a bar, she once again felt that her twisted and shelled soul was surrounded by the foul language of drunkards. This physical concentration camp where she can't see her soul at all is not her world.
At this time, a call for "a glass of brandy" came from a distance and attracted her. There was an open book in front of the man, and his voice was gentle and modest. She seemed to hear voices from another different world and felt her "soul flying from every capillary and pore to the surface".
Thomas was also moved by the young and trite Teresa. The stranger gave her a note with a phone number: If you happen to come to Prague one day. ...
Finally, on an unbearable day, Teresa left without saying goodbye and boarded the train to Prague. She has Anna in her hand? Karenina, run to Thomas, her new life! She prayed to find her unique self there.
Life with Thomas is very happy. At the same time, she also tapped her own potential. From helping others at the beginning to teaching herself photography and becoming a professional cameraman, she found her own position.
Happy Teresa thinks she has found her soul. But it didn't last long. One day, she accidentally discovered that Thomas was in close contact with several women at the same time.
She was extremely depressed. I thought I could find my unique self far away from my mother, but today she sees that she is no different from others. She blamed herself because a man who didn't love her betrayed her mother. She even forgave her mother for what she had done before. Mother is in the same predicament as her: suffering from loving an unfaithful husband.
She once wanted to go back to her mother.
One day, the editor suggested that she shoot a cactus and said, "Even if you shoot a cactus you don't like, it's your own life. If you live only for your husband, it is not your life. "
Teresa was annoyed for no reason: "My life is my husband, not a cactus."
When she got home, Thomas found that she was in poor condition and asked her what she could do. Teresa said, I want you to get older, ten years and twenty years older than you are now. In fact, what she wants to say is: I want you to be weak, as weak as I am. At this time, Teresa felt extremely weak and afraid.
Because of the failure of his previous marriage, Thomas has a great fear of women. After the divorce, he interacted with many women and kept sexual friendship, never involving love and feelings. But he felt sorry for Teresa. He thought that Teresa was a child drifting with the tide, and the river was surging, so he could not ignore her, so he married her. But he has always felt that love and sex are fundamentally different, and making love with others does not affect his love for her.
There is no doubt that Teresa is hard to accept. She tried to get rid of her depression by flirting with other men, but what she got was endless sadness and loneliness. She is in great pain and doesn't know how long she can hold on in this love castle. She even dreamed that she was buried alive and could see nothing with her eyes full of sand. She thought, if really can't see anything, it would be great!
Due to the direct political situation at that time, Thomas was forced to give up his beloved career as a surgeon because he didn't want to go with the flow. He accepted Teresa's suggestion and took their dog karenin to the countryside to live a pastoral life.
They fell in love with it and gained unprecedented freedom. Teresa also got a short comfort in her heart. They live a repetitive life every day and find peace in this repetition.
However, karenin was dying of cancer, and Teresa was very sad. The more she felt, the more she felt for karenin than for Thomas. When karenin was dying, Teresa seemed to hear her heavy breathing, the faint breathing at the end of her life.
Teresa's search brought me deep thinking: as modern women, where is our spiritual home and soul destination?
Is it love? Love is so wonderful, but so short and fragile that lifelong love hardly exists. Moreover, the investment of men and women in love is completely unequal, and women may give everything, while love is only a tiny part of men's life.
What's more, in today's society, it is almost impossible to move with the feeling of drinking enough with love. Love will be exhausted by all kinds of hardships in life, so that emotional things are too illusory and difficult to be pragmatic. If the three views of both sides cannot be synchronized, they will soon become the appearance and spirit of patchwork. So, how can love become a woman's dependence?
The relationship between Thomas and Theresa is an unstable example. Thomas can't give all of himself to Teresa. He told Teresa publicly: Love and sex are separate. He thinks that sexual friendship with other women has no effect on his love with Teresa. Teresa can only struggle in the abyss of pain.
Of course, around us, more and more women may have awakened, and they know that they should strive for self-improvement, economic independence and get ahead. However, most of them have gained these growth experiences after years of painful lessons, and some of them have no time to turn back.
Where can I get spiritual strength and soul destination?
Obviously, Teresa has no hope of finding a unique soul from Thomas. At the end of the novel, Teresa found selfless love in karenin, and found peace and tranquility in the nature far away from the noise and the world. She buried karenin and herself with great despair.
Milan? Kundera said: "Everyone's body is the same. It is the heart that keeps beating in the chest, the nose is just the nozzle that serves the lungs, and the face is the dashboard that marks the body function. "
Who hasn't? Women and men, there is no difference! Everyone is a machine that eats and drinks Lazarus. Like animals, what is worth loving about human beings? What do you love each other? How do you attract others to be your soul mate? Who can be who's permanent spiritual pillar?
In this world, only the self-independence of spirit and soul can last forever. Love yourself, learn to get along with yourself, and the soul can be purified and grown. Independent personality and colorful spiritual world will make us strong, brave and impeccable, and we will have invincible power when the building collapses.
Instead of desperately looking for it from other places, it is better to return to yourself; It is better to please yourself than to be wonderful for yourself! Instead of relying on the noise and excitement around, it is better to be the warm and dazzling light.
The strong help themselves, and the saints help others. Life is a process of self-redemption. The sooner you finish it, the sooner you can get rid of the bondage and get an independent spiritual home and soul destination.
Only when the soul has a home can life have a way.