

After the Warsaw Pact invasion, they escape to Zürich, where he starts womanizing again. At first he views his wife as a burden whom he is obliged to take care of. He explains womanizing as an imperative to explore female idiosyncrasies only expressed during sex.


He sees no contradiction between these two positions. He considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with many women but loves only his wife, Tereza. Tomáš is a womanizer who lives for his work.
