Learning Languages in Society with Gabi.
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Learning Languages in Society with Gabi.
#008 - Has any book of literature made you change your point of view about a language you’re learning?
#008 - Gabi refers his listeners to his latest blog article called Literature, emotions and language...a reckless marriage? He formulates the following questions:
Does it make sense to live a life carrying the heaviness of being or does it instead not make sense to live such a life? If we interpret life’s occurences as merely happening once in our life are we constrained in favor of the principles of the lightness of being?
Has any book of literature made you change your point of view about a language you’re learning?
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Welcome to the Learning Languages in Society with Gabi podcast, where it's all about the fascinating world of languages and culture. Let's rock.
Hi everybody and welcome to my show. My name is Gabi and today’s episode is going to be very very short and the purpose of it is to refer you to my latest article on my blog called Literature, emotions and language… a reckless marriage?
Today I am going to focus on the world of literature. And I am going to formulate a question to you, which you can answer in the comment section under the article I just mentioned on my blog.
I just wanted to make a few observations about a book that I read about a decade ago by a famous author now dead unfortunately. His name was Milan Kundera. He was Czech and he died at age 94 in Paris, France, on June 11 this year. So about a month and a half ago.
The novel I read is called The unbearable lightness of being. A novel I read in French which, I confess, left on me a profound and indelible mark.
Kundera left his homeland for France in 1975 after being expelled from the Czech communist party —despite being an enthusiastic member when young— and had a notorious career for half a century as a short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It starts in the Prague spring of 1968 and during the Soviet Union invasion of what was called back then Czechoslovakia.
The novel explores the philosophical idea of the concept of eternal recurrence (the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will occur again ad infinitum.
On one hand, one of the main characters is called Tereza and she implicitly believes in the idea of recurrence, which imposes a type of heaviness in the way she lives her life. As if every decision she makes matter. This heaviness could be a type of burden or a type of benefit depending on the person’s point of view.
On the other hand, Thomas, her husband, loves her but can’t help but to be a very light-spirited adulterous man. He and his mistress, Sabina, both represent the lightness of being. They implicitly believe that things happen only once in a lifetime and thus a light way of being is therefore a much more satisfactory way of living life.
Does it make sense to live a life carrying the heaviness of being or does it instead not make sense to live such a life? if we interpret life’s occurences as merely happening once in our life are we constrained in favor of the principles of the lightness of being?
Has any book of literature made you change your point of view about a language you’re learning?