Question
In a novel, it is explained that the “absolute absence of burden” causes this quality. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept, which is presented as an opposition to Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence at the beginning of a novel. This is the first title noun of that novel, in which a woman who wears a bowler hat during sex represents it.
ANSWER: lightness [or lehkost; or légèreté; or The Unbearable Lightness of Being; or Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí; or L'insoutenable Légèreté de L'être; reject “light”]
[10e] The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a novel by this Czech author whose other philosophical novels include The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
ANSWER: Milan Kundera
[10h] The narrative of a Kundera novel titled for this concept begins when the narrator sees a woman named Agnes waving at a swimming teacher. The second section of that novel discusses Goethe’s relationship with Bettina.
ANSWER: immortality [or nesmrtelnost]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 67% | 17% |