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It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. 'The novel is not the author's confession it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.' Maybe an autobiography can only ever truly be 'written' through this literary, distant lens as if to say, only then, through reflection and imagination is the nature of the human condition fully realized and understood. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. Is the narrator stating that he has lived the situation, yet not the response? Does the response then become the delicate and intricate image which literature sets up to act as a mirror for the human condition to realize its potential?

That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified of them.' The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. The narrator's meta-reflection about an autobiographical characterization is transparently summed up when he states, 'I have known all these situations, I have experienced them myself, yet none of them has given rise to the person my curriculum vitae and I represent. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?' 'As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said anything essential about.

'As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman the …more In chapter 15, part 5 the narrator directly addresses this question. In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible. Maureen Spengel In chapter 15, part 5 the narrator directly addresses this question.

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