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Study Guide

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 2, Chapter 1

By Milan Kundera

Part 2, Chapter 1

"It would be senseless of the author to try to convince the reader that his characters once actually lived," begins the narrator.
Characters are born of "a stimulating phrase or two from a basic situation" (2.1.1). Tomas, for example, was born of the "Es muss sein!", whereas Tereza was born from the rumbling of a stomach.
When Tereza went up to Tomas's apartment for the first time, she was embarrassed that her stomach was rumbling.

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