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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 6, Chapter 22

By Milan Kundera

Part 6, Chapter 22

Franz next feels rage. He wishes, like Stalin's son, to throw himself at the border, to go out in a blaze of gunfire.
Franz is having trouble reconciling the glory of the Grand March with the vanity of its members, like the actress who fights to be up front.
He wants to prove, with a glorious death, that the Grand March is worth everything.
But man can never prove anything like this, says the narrator. The death of Stalin's son proved that the scales can't be tipped.
Instead of getting himself shot, Franz returns to the busses with the others.

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