Connections between We and The Unbearable Lightness of Being

There is a handful of connections that I have seen before from these two books. Each of them might be a potential Research Assignment topic.

1. The ideal. In We the One State emphasizes striving for the ideal, "where nothing actually happens any more". In The Unbearable Lightness of Being (hereafter shortened to TULoB) kitsch represents an image of the ideal which many characters especially Sabina find horrifying. Both authors resent the idea of the ideal and the attempt to reach it in different ways.
2. Conformity. We is quite self-explanatory (maybe a little too much so) in this case. Conformity pops up in many dimenstions in TULoB, for example in the Communist system or in Sabina's mother and her nightmares. However, it might be hard to relate to TULoB's central themes.
3. Betrayal and Revolution. Zamyatin considered the revolution an essential and eternal aspect of history. In TULoB Kundera offers a balance of betrayal and fidelity. However, again it might be hard to connect to central themes in TULoB.
4. The book's format - how it's written. We's diary format is important in understanding D-503's transformation. It also contains a few inconsistencies, maybe to impose the author's presence in the novel. In TULoB the author is all-important and the book is written in an essay format, diminishing Tomas, Tereza and co. to ideas. This helps the readers understand that TULoB's function is not so much to portray the relationships of people but the relations between different concepts. However it might be very hard to relate the two novels' formats together.
5. Postmodernism. The One State in We is portrayed as the ultimate modernist society, where "the ultimate wisdom" is achieved and there is no more to be known. However that's where Zamyatin injects postmodernism in his novel, as D-503 struggles to define new, mysterious concepts transcendant of the One State's borders. In TULoB Kundera keeps returning to the same events except in a different light, showing how there is no right or absolute viewpoint to the world.
6. Eternal reccurence and infinity. There are many references to infinity in We, for example I-330's notion that "revolutions are infinite" and that the One State keeps the illusion that there is no infinity, which ties in nicely with postmodernism. In TULoB this is shown in the "heavy" concept of eternal recurrence, most noticably how Parts 1 and 2 describe the same events (as well as Parts 4 and 5) and Parts 2 and 4 are both called "Soul and Body" while Parts 1 and 5 are both called "Lightness and Weight". There are some nice connections here, however the topic is probably too broad and needs some narrowing down.
7. Soul, body and machinery. In We's One State the soul is diminished and the body, as a piece of machinery, is all-important. TULoB also discusses soul and body, albeit maybe in a different way.
8. Awareness. Awareness of the world of mysteriousness, of the postmodern, is ever-pervasive in We, however, not much is known about TULoB to say a lot about it. More research needs to be done if this topic is to be chosen.
9. Significance and insignificance. We's One State demands that its ciphers are insignificant and just "a millionth part of a ton". In TULoB insignificance and significance are in a four way balance with lightness and weight. Significance means weight, however objects that are signficant are unique, individual (a good connection to We's portrayal of the individual can be made here) and therefore only happens once. Yet that makes them light. Vice versa, insignificance, which seems like a light concept, is pervasive across space and time and is thus eternally recurring, and therefore heavy. This might make a good topic if it could be made less broad and if the philosophical, not political, implications of significance and insignificance in We is better explored.