"Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review in 1983:
'My lifetime ambition has been to unite
the utmost seriousness of question with
the utmost lightness of form. The combination of
a frivolous form and a serious subject
immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas
(those that occur in our beds as well as those that
we play out on the great stage of History) and their
awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable
lightness of being.' "
The above is from The New York Times this morning.
The Times says that Kundera died yesterday in Paris at 94.
For another meeting of form and subject, see The Grid.