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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Liang Yong'an's Reading
Revisit a Summit of Contemporary Fiction, Chapter by Chapter
Completed · 104 episodes
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Liang Yong'an: Perhaps Only Now Can We Truly Understand Kundera | In Memoriam Zhang Yiwei: Is It Lightness or Weight That Causes Our Pain? Wang Mingjun: Kundera Reconstructed an Unfree World for Us 1. Youth in Flight: Milan Kundera Is Not So Distant from Us 2. Seeking and Encounter: The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Chinese Youth in the 1980s 3. Battlefield of the Soul: Four Ways to Reread The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1. A Sketch That Can Never Become a Painting 2. The Heavy Suitcase 3. Evidence of Love's Crime 4. Dreams in Variation 5. Prague and Zurich 6. Must It Be So? Liang Yong'an | What Are “Lightness” and “Weight” in Kundera? Liang Yong'an | Understanding Life's Ambiguity: Are You Kundera's “Ideal Reader”? Liang Yong'an | Why Do Two People Experience the Same Relationship Differently? Liang Yong'an | Can Love Really Disrupt Reason and Logic? 7. Tereza in the Mirror 8. The Long Battle with Her Mother 9. The Bird of Accidental Fate 10. A Passionate New Life 11. Dreams as Games of Imagination 12. Another Self 13. The Camera's Gaze 14. I Want You to Become Weak 15. Moving House Once Again Liang Yong'an | A Growling Stomach Lets the Body Prove Love Has Arrived Liang Yong'an | How Do Regret and Misfortune Spread Between Mother and Daughter? Liang Yong'an | How Can the Self Be Saved in a Humiliating World? Liang Yong'an | Anxiety After Stability: Love's Unknowns, Accidents, and Values Liang Yong'an | Only a Bodily Journey Can Give Us a New Understanding of Life 16. Going to Palermo 17. The Bowler Hat 18. Women, Fidelity and Betrayal, Music, Light and Darkness 19. The Long Road of Betrayal 20. The March, New York's Beauty, Sabina's Homeland, and Cemeteries 21. The Wife's Declaration 22. Amsterdam's Old Church and Strength 23. Betrayal Once More 24. New Life and Freedom 25. Is the End of Every Betrayal Emptiness? 26. Earthly Love and Transcendent Love Liang Yong'an | Ultimately, We Are Carefully Protecting Our Own Wholeness Liang Yong'an | Can We Really Hold Love Lightly? Liang Yong'an | How Does a Decent Intellectual Become a Self-Pitying Man-Child? Liang Yong'an | The Bowler Hat Whispers: How Objects Carry History and Life Liang Yong'an | Why Does a Life of Rebellion and Refusal End in Emptiness? Liang Yong'an | Finding Our Value in an Age of Reproduction 27. Smells, Secret Recordings, and Women 28. Away with This Body! 29. Flirtation as Essential Exploration 30. Those Who Choose Death Will Be Shot Here 31. The Body Betrays the Soul 32. The Only Weapon: Fidelity 33. The Secret Police's Trap 34. Farewell to Life Liang Yong'an | The Informer Is Sadder Than the Person Betrayed Liang Yong'an | Freedom Without Answers: Can My Solitude Recognize Yours? Liang Yong'an | How Can the Spirit Save Itself When Self and World Lose Control? Liang Yong'an | Amid Movement and Farewell, Are We Destined to Drift? 35. Reflections on Oedipus 36. Tomas Loses His Position 37. An Unexpected Visitor 38. Standing by His Choice 39. Turn Weight into Lightness, the Negative into Positive! 40. Pursuing Women as an Attempt to Conquer the World 41. Poetic Memory 42. Signing the Petition 43. “I'm Sorry, I Won't Sign” 44. History, Light as a Feather 45. She Must Not Be Woken 46. Despair Crushes Body and Soul 47. Excitement at the Sight of Swallows 48. Falling into Tereza's Soul Liang Yong'an | Preserving Dignity and Responsibility in an Age of Technology and Conformity Liang Yong'an | How Can We Reconcile with Ourselves While Living Through Decline? Liang Yong'an | Why Does Love Ultimately Make Us So Unfree? Liang Yong'an | Why Do History and Life Become Unfinished Sketches in Kundera? Liang Yong'an | Must Both Lovers Be “Weak” to Meet as Equals? Liang Yong'an | Why Do People Operated on by Their Era Eventually Feel Happy? 49. Yakov's Death 50. Kitsch Is a Screen That Hides Death 51. Kitsch Can Never Be Completely Escaped 52. The March to Cambodia 53. Destined to Perform 54. Franz's Death 55. A Transit Point Between Existence and Oblivion Liang Yong'an | The Answer to Why We Exist Lies in Hell—and in Excrement Liang Yong'an | Why Does “Long Live Life” Become the Murder of Actual Lives? Liang Yong'an | How Does Kitsch Change Human Destiny in Kundera? Liang Yong'an | Why Do We Sacrifice Concrete People for Abstract Humanity? 56. Escape to the Countryside 57. “Leaving” Humanity 58. Karenin's Smile 59. Happiness Is the Longing for Repetition 60. Farewell to Karenin 61. Becoming a Hare 62. A Letter from His Son 63. Anxiety and Happiness 64. The Grand Idyll and the Small Idyll I 65. The Grand Idyll and the Small Idyll II 66. The Grand Idyll and the Small Idyll III Liang Yong'an | Is Controlling and Killing Animals a Rehearsal for Controlling and Killing People? Liang Yong'an | Why Is Women's Experience of Life More Like a Lifelong Migration? Liang Yong'an | Abandon the Myth of Mission and Remember: You Are Free | Finale