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* Tomáš-A Czech surgeon and intellectual.
Tomáš is a womanizer who lives for his work.
He considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he copulates with many women but loves only his wife, Tereza.
He sees no contradiction between these two positions.
He explains womanizing as an imperative to explore female idiosyncrasies only expressed during sex.
At first he views his wife as a burden whom he is obligated to take care of.
After the Russian invasion, they escape to Zurich where he starts womanizing again.
Tereza, homesick, returns to Prague with the dog.
He quickly realizes he wants to be with her and follows her home.
He has to deal with the consequences of a letter to the editor in which he metaphorically likened the Czech Communists to Oedipus.
Eventually fed up with life in Prague under the communist regime, he moves to the country with Tereza.
He abandons his twin obsessions of work and womanizing and discovers true happiness with Tereza.
His epitaph, written by his Christian son, is He Wanted the Kingdom of God on Earth.
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