The Unbearable Lightness of being part 3 Summary

In part 3 we find out that Sabina has another lover - Franz, he suggests a trip to Palermo with Sabina, but she refuses. she eventually agrees to go after a wierd ecsapade in front of te mirror where she strips down and puts a bowler hat on her head. When Sabina is alone she remembers Tomas putting a bowler hat on her head during sex. Sabina thinks the hat undermines her dignity as a woman. the thins that by Tomas putting the hat on her head he was humiliatiating her and for some reason she liked it. It seems like Sabina ans Franz dont really understand what each other mean when they say/use certain words. E.g. Franz bases womanhood on his mother, and considers Sabina a woman. Sabina considers herself an non-gendered being. She thinks of her sex as secondary, an occurance of birth and not crucial to her identity. Another example of this is thier different views on music. Franz loves music and makes no distinction between different types of music. Sabina on te other hand hates music and thinks of as noise associated with loud communist youth summer camps.

Later in the section Franz's wife Marie Claude holds a dinner party for local artists. Her loudness offends Franz. When Sabina enters, Marie Claude makes a loud, rude comment about Sabinas pendant. (She seems to say this to put beautiful Sabina in her place, not because she thinks Franz and Sabina are having an affair).
Franz packs his bags and tells Marie-Claude he has been having an affair. She reacts unexpectadly and does not get angry. Franz then leaves to meet Sabina.
Sabina tries to put an end to her life of betrayal, but she is liking Franz less and less. Franz thinks he will spend the rest of his life with Sabina but Sabina has resolved to leave Franz the next day.
Franz finds out Sabina has left and doesnt understand. He finds a small apartment and starts living alone. Preferring the ideal to the real, he starts to feel happy that Sabina has left him as he realises that he likes remembereing his relationship with her rather than actually being with her. He starts living with one of his students and his wife refuses to divorce him. Sabina moves to Paris and Tomas's son writes a letter saying that Tomas and Tereza have died. Sabina thinks of death and imagines the scaryness of a heavy gravestone trapping her down.

SAFE BLUD!