Questa insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere [English translation]

What's the matter, my aesthetic friend? 1

It's not convenient to lose your marbles.

You don’t even read “La Repubblica”, 2

Milan Kundera doesn’t recover you. 3

Milan Kundera!

Milan Kundera!

A long beard is symptomatic

Of a serious post-atomic virus 4

They have not seen you at the Foro Italico 5:

You enjoy yourself only anonymously 6.

‘Cause you, you're gone:

Do you not hear friends that are thinking about you?

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

(This Unbearable Lightness of [the] Being)

At least, tell me if she’s rich and noble

or if she’s a peripheral fruit. 7

think about it for a moment!

what are friends for, forsooth?

Let’s talk about it.

Let’s talk about it.

‘Cause you, you're gone:

Do you not hear friends that are thinking about you?

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

(This Unbearable Lightness of [the] Being)

“Out of Africa”

“9½ Weeks” 8

With the same woman,

on the same night!

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

You are falling in love.

(This Unbearable Lightness of [the] Being)

1. He refers to the yuppies and to Regan’s hedonism.2. “La Repubblica” was only 10 years old in the 80s. ’Twas a must-read among the radical chic.3. The “right book” on those days to read was “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera.4. You had to keep your beard unshaven, as it was first cut two days before. It remarked a trendy life that was lived in the night time. There was a precise procedure in order not to let it grow.5. The “Foro Italico” in Rome was dedicated to the most hedonistic events of the Roman summer.6. The friend has fallen in love with the 80s and with a woman. The friends are talking about the “movida”, that will be later on famous. 7. Regan conveyed a new American Dream, opposed to Thatcher’s point of view. Anyone could become rich and famous, even a “peripheral fruit”. But you had to have the right numbers and the right shape. 8. Those were the movies that were mandatory: they talked about romance and the escape from the western world.