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Approximately 100 athletes from Czechoslovakia, Canada, Iraq, and Cameroon will live under tight security at Quincy House from July 14 until the games end on August...
...Book of Laughter and Forgetting, published in the U.S. in 1980, Author Milan Kundera brilliantly fused passion and playfulness. That book's collection of seven loosely related stories danced around a central, somber event: the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The resulting oppression halted the liberal reforms that blossomed during the famous Prague Spring of 1968 and eventually drove a number of intellectuals and artists, including Kundera, from their native country. Songs of exile are sad, by definition. Yet Kundera's added a comic vision capable of seeing both oppressors and oppressed locked in battle against a common enemy...
...League childhood and, in turn, all of her lovers: "What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset by her husband's continued philan-gdering, she returns to Czechoslovakia, and he follows, knowing that the i authorities will forbid him to practice medicine...
...giving up his erotic friendships, though he is afraid of hurting Tereza. During the political unrest of 1968, Tomas and Tereza move to Switzerland; they are followed by Sabina, Tomas's next-best mistress. Some time later Tereza, deciding that she lacks the strength to live abroad, returns to Czechoslovakia, from which now there is no chance of returning. Tomas follows her back...
Most brilliantly, Kundera makes Tomas follow Tereza back into Czechoslovakia simply so that Tomas can make sure that their love is not an accident, that it is not light. Tomas has been impressed prior to this by the series of coincidences which first caused him to meet Tereza, he was able to reconstruct six. Thus his decision to follow her back, though to anyone else an act of utmost folly, to him makes sense he thinks that this single act will overcome the lightness of his life...