The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Louise Coutinho-Frensdorf But this untamed wilderness soon

But this untamed wilderness soon becomes tainted by dark stirrings of sexual desire - and as the pressures of growing up drive an irrevocable rift between them

De wereld van moeders en dochters is er een van symbiose en scheiding

waarin de natuur een centrale plaats inneemt

a teenage student with her widowed father

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Louise Coutinho-Frensdorf But this untamed wilderness soonA young woman is in love with a successful surgeon: a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals, while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'.