Betrayal is Sabina’s way of fighting kitsch. In Sabina’s mind, betrayal is about asserting your individuality against the conformity imposed by totalitarian kitsch.
“Beauty is a world betrayed,” thinks Sabina. “The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenery” (3.7.14)
“…When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina-what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.” (3.10.2)
Milan Kundera/The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
