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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera
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Part 1, Chapter 11
Part 1, Chapter 12
Part 1, Chapter 13
Part 1, Chapter 14
Part 1, Chapter 15
Part 1, Chapter 16
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Part 2, Chapter 3
Part 2, Chapter 4
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Part 2, Chapter 6
Part 2, Chapter 7
Part 2, Chapter 8
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Part 2, Chapter 10
Part 2, Chapter 11
Part 2, Chapter 12
Part 2, Chapter 13
Part 2, Chapter 14
Part 2, Chapter 15
Part 2, Chapter 16
Part 2, Chapter 17
Part 2, Chapter 18
Part 2, Chapter 19
Part 2, Chapter 20
Part 2, Chapter 21
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Part 2, Chapter 27
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Part 3, Chapter 1
Part 3, Chapter 2
Part 3, Chapter 3
Part 3, Chapter 4
Part 3, Chapter 5
Part 3, Chapter 6
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Part 3, Chapter 8
Part 3, Chapter 9
Part 3, Chapter 10
Part 3, Chapter 11
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Part 4, Chapter 3
Part 4, Chapter 4
Part 4, Chapter 5
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
Part 6, Chapter 1
Part 6, Chapter 2
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 5, Chapter 17 Summary
Two years is about as long as anyone can be on holiday, and Tomas is now in his third year of window-washing.
He's also physically exhausted from having so much sex with so many different women, though his curiosity is still insatiable.
One day, he's getting off early from work, and hasn't had sex with anyone.\
He panics and tries to call a young woman about ten times, someone he's had trysts with many times in the past.
Then, while he's walking down the street, he runs into a woman who greets him.
He does not recognize her and tries to figure out who she is as quickly as he can so he can get her to go have sex with him.
Finally he realizes –
she
is the young woman he has been trying to call all day.
This proves to him that he is as tired mentally as he is physically, and that his two-year-long holiday has come to an end.
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