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    Which Czech word did Milan Kundera coin to express "the sudden awareness of one's existential suffering"?

    Question #89351. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Dec 03 07 7:36 PM)


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    		Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (The unbearable lightness of life)

    http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesnesitelná_lehkost_bytí

    The English title of Kundera's novel is rather "The unbearable lightness of being".

    According to Kundera, "being" is full of "unbearable lightness" because each of us has only one life to live: "Einmal ist keinmal" ("once is nonce", i.e., "what happened once might as well have never happened at all"). Therefore, each life is ultimately insignificant; every decision ultimately does not matter. Since decisions do not matter, they are "light": they do not tie us down.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being

    Dec 03 07, 7:56 PM

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