Cultural analysis of the work The Unbearable Lightness of Being of the author Milan Kundera

Rad se bavi analizom romana Nepodnošljiva lakoća postojanja Milana Kundere. Polazeći od kulturalne teorije, roman se analizira na uspostavljenim oprekama: lakoća-težina, duša-tijelo, privatno-javno, slučajnost-sudbina, esej o kiču-roman te obuhvaća likove, njihove odnose, postupke i društveno povijesni kontekst, posebice s obzirom na vrijeme i pravac postmodernizma.The subject of this paper is the analysis of Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Starting from the cultural theory, the novel is analysed on set opposites: easy-difficult, body-soul, private-public, coincidence-fate, essay on papa-novel, and covers the characters, their relationships, actions and social-historical context, especially considering the period and the direction of postmodernism