I looked through the forums and haven't seen a post like this;
can anyone please explain, i read the book but i don't remember, why does Sabina leave her apartment when the guy (I forget his name) tells her that he left his wife for her? I thought that was so sad.
I never read the book but I got the impression that she liked being the other woman. When he leaves his wife she no longer wants to be with him.
Friend of mine that has read the book says she just likes to destroy lives.
It's more like she feels emotionally weighed down by a man who has left everything for her (which is why she likes Tomas so much, because he would never come "home" to her every night). She's an artist first and foremost, although she doesn't seem to label herself as such (or with any other label). The lightness of her being comes from from being a bohemian wanderer, not cementing home or relationships. She wouldn't be who she was if she did. In Tomas' case and Tereza's also, it is unbearable because they cannot be suppressed intellectually but for a while. They shift a lot for the same reason. That's what I got from the movie. I think they also left for the countryside thinking they'd rather take life as it comes, like Sabina, but unlike her they would plant their emotional roots with one another by the end. The end was beautiful in that it was a happy one.
shareI think it helps to understand Sabina as a free spirit. She was attracted to the married man because he was married and safe. When he left his wife, I suspect it scared her and caused her to leave abruptly.
shareYes, I agree. Sabina loves nothing more than betrayal (which is discussed in the novel as her stepping out into the unknown). The 'unbearable lightness' is her having nothing to anchor her - she has left behind all responsibilty/commitment and ends her days alone.
Madonna's Like a Virgin ... it's a metaphor ...