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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera
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Part 1, Chapter 15
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Part 2, Chapter 18
Part 2, Chapter 19
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Part 4, Chapter 6
Part 4, Chapter 7
Part 4, Chapter 8
Part 4, Chapter 9
Part 4, Chapter 10
Part 4, Chapter 11
Part 4, Chapter 12
Part 4, Chapter 13
Part 4, Chapter 14
Part 4, Chapter 15
Part 4, Chapter 16
Part 4, Chapter 17
Part 4, Chapter 18
Part 4, Chapter 19
Part 4, Chapter 20
Part 4, Chapter 21
Part 4, Chapter 22
Part 4, Chapter 23
Part 4, Chapter 24
Part 4, Chapter 25
Part 4, Chapter 26
Part 4, Chapter 27
Part 4, Chapter 28
Part 4, Chapter 29
Part 5, Chapter 1
Part 5, Chapter 2
Part 5, Chapter 3
Part 5, Chapter 4
Part 5, Chapter 5
Part 5, Chapter 6
Part 5, Chapter 7
Part 5, Chapter 8
Part 5, Chapter 9
Part 5, Chapter 10
Part 5, Chapter 11
Part 5, Chapter 12
Part 5, Chapter 13
Part 5, Chapter 14
Part 5, Chapter 15
Part 5, Chapter 16
Part 5, Chapter 17
Part 5, Chapter 18
Part 5, Chapter 19
Part 5, Chapter 20
Part 5, Chapter 21
Part 5, Chapter 22
Part 5, Chapter 23
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Part 6, Chapter 3
Part 6, Chapter 4
Part 6, Chapter 5
Part 6, Chapter 6
Part 6, Chapter 7
Part 6, Chapter 8
Part 6, Chapter 9
Part 6, Chapter 10
Part 6, Chapter 11
Part 6, Chapter 12
Part 6, Chapter 13
Part 6, Chapter 14
Part 6, Chapter 15
Part 6, Chapter 16
Part 6, Chapter 17
Part 6, Chapter 18
Part 6, Chapter 19
Part 6, Chapter 20
Part 6, Chapter 21
Part 6, Chapter 22
Part 6, Chapter 23
Part 6, Chapter 24
Part 6, Chapter 25
Part 6, Chapter 26
Part 6, Chapter 27
Part 6, Chapter 28
Part 6, Chapter 29
Part 7, Chapter 1
Part 7, Chapter 2
Part 7, Chapter 3
Part 7, Chapter 4
Part 7, Chapter 5
Part 7, Chapter 6
Part 7, Chapter 7
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 4, Chapter 17 Summary
The engineer starts unbuttoning her blouse.
He wants her to take part in the foreplay, but she remains passive; she doesn't want to take any responsibility for what happens.
Her soul remains neutral with regards to what happens to her body.
And yet she becomes incredibly aroused, all the more because she is becoming aroused against her will.
By the time she is naked in his arms, Tereza's soul sees her body, for the first time, not as something banal but as something fascinating.
As they begin to have sex, Tereza is filled with hatred.
She doesn't want to let her body take pleasure in a stranger's embrace, and yet her body
is
taking pleasure in it.
At the moment when she has an orgasm, she spits in his face.
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