The Unbearable Lightness of Providence
摘要
Milan Kundera’sKundera most successful novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, due to its mixed form of essay and fiction is a text that offers itself to multiple interpretations. Against the bleak backdrop of Czechoslovakia occupied by Soviet tanks, the tragic love story, melancholic and violent at times, between Tomas and Tereza, invokes questions of philosophical nature. The text that opens with a reflection on Nietzsche’sNietzsche doctrine of the eternal return, is a journey into fundamental regions of human existence. Accordingly, this chapter will draw attention to the intertwined relationship between chaos, determinismDeterminism, and free willFree Will posing the existence of a Supreme Intelligence as guarantor of meaning.1