Christopher Booker is a scholar who wrote that every story falls into one of seven basic plot structures: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, the Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Shmoop explores which of these structures fits this story like Cinderella’s slipper.
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Since Kundera has no interest in pursuing a traditional, unified plotline for this book (each part of the book is a self-contained story), it's not possible to assign one type of narrative line to it. While there is an overall sense of journeying throughout the seven parts (toward annihilation, we're sorry to say), it's more of a thematic concern than a structural one.