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Tomas
Tomas Through Kundera's Tomáš, the name has acquired a specifically Central European philosophical weight — the man who refuses to be weighed down by commitment or ideology, who pursues beauty and pleasure as a form of resistance against the heaviness of totalitarian life. In Czech culture more broadly it is simply one of the most common and dependable of masculine names.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
The Prague surgeon and serial womanizer whose philosophical meditations on lightness and weight, set against the backdrop of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, give Kundera's masterpiece its erotic and political charge.
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