Deleuze’s Nietzschean Eternal Return in The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Year: 2014

Published in: Fundación Jean Piaget, Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata, Conexiones (2014)

This paper examines Gilles Deleuze’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return and explores how this philosophical framework illuminates Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Far from a literal repetition, Deleuze reads the eternal return as an affirmation of difference, a perspective that resonates with Kundera’s narrative tension between lightness and weight. The article argues that the novel offers a literary expression of Deleuzian ontology.

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