标题: 《The unbearable lightness of being 》作者：- Milan Kundera【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2015-9-3 09:34 标题: 《The unbearable lightness of being 》作者：- Milan Kundera【EPUB】 Kundera,%20Milan%20-%20The%20Unbearable%20Lightness%20Of%20Being.htm MILAN KUNDERA The Unbearable Lightness of Being Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim PART ONE Lightness and Weight PART TWO Soul and Body PART THREE Words Misunderstood PART FOUR Soul and Body PART FIVE Lightness and Weight PART SIX The Grand March PART SEVEN Karenin's Smile PART ONE Lightness and Weight 1 The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recur? rence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for file:///E|/Kundera,%20Milan%20-%20The%20Unbearable%20Lightness%20Of%20Being.htm (1 of 192)2004-10-23 9:15:10 file:///E|/Kundera,%20Milan%20-%20The%20Unbearable%20Lightness%20Of%20Being.htm all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing. We need take no more note of it than of a war between two African kingdoms in the fourteenth century, a war that altered nothing in the destiny of the world, even if a hundred thousand blacks perished in excruciating torment. Will the war between two African kingdoms in the four?teenth century itself be altered if it recurs again and again, in eternal return? It will: it will become a solid mass, permanently protuber?ant, its inanity irreparable. If the French Revolution were to recur eternally, French historians would be less proud of Robespierre. But because they deal with something that will not return, the bloody years of the Revolution have turned into mere words, theories, and discus?sions, have become lighter than feathers, frightening no one. There is an infinite difference between a Robespierre who oc?curs only once in history and a Robespierre who eternally re?turns, chopping off French heads. Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return im?plies a perspective from which things appear other than