It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.
In Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the author explores the precarious nature of human existence and identity. He illustrates how easily individuals can find themselves on the other side of a metaphorical border, where the fundamental aspects of life such as love and faith lose their significance. This border represents a fragile line separating a meaningful existence from one devoid of meaning.
Kundera emphasizes that human life is...