Abstract
This article aims to understand the role of the History in the narrative of The unbearable lightness of being, novel written by Milan Kundera in 1984. It is possible to notice that the narrator assumes the role of historian, even if he is not compromised with the veracity of the facts. Therefore, he acts like who is building a collective memory of Czech Republic from the individual memories of each character, in the middle of the russian invasion that ended the Prague Spring in 1968. In order to discuss this, we will analyze the concepts that envolve the issue of the History from the writings of Paul Ricoeur and the historians Fernand Braudel, Eric Hobsbawm and Jacques Le Goff.
