A question I have long enjoyed posing to anyone who is willing to listen to me pose unanswerable questions is: Why does everyone consider Shakespeare’s tragedies to be more realistic and deep than his comedies? A related question: why doesn’t everyone realize P. G. Wodehouse is a Great Books author? Milan Kundera points the way to an unusual answer in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It is a bit hard to classify the book. It is most certainly one part novel; it is also one part … [Read more...] about Bearing Life