EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Hello readers and welcome to the July 2022 Modern/Popular selection. We're reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

This discussion is going deep into SPOILER alert territory. If this is not where you're at, please head over to the Pre-Read thread over here.

In what ways does Kundera explore what he calls "the irreconcilable duality of body and soul, that fundamental human experience." In what ways does he show this duality to be fundamental?

It’s been some time since I read this, so forgive any slips of memory. But I disliked this book because it was incredibly intentionally vulgar in order to emphasize the points the author was making, and I thought his women characters were seen entirely through the male gaze, and not in a good way - almost entirely focused on physical attributes and he gives women this 1950’s characterization men believed women were like.