Ignorance (Milan Kundera)
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Ignorance is a novel by Milan Kundera. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was translated into English in 2002 by Linda Asher.
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Czech expatriot Irena, who has been living in France -Kundera self reference- decides to return to her home after twenty years. She meets there an old flame.
The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland, which has ceased to be a home. In doing so, it reworks the old theme of Odysseus. It also delves into love and its manifestations -a recurring theme in Kundera's novels. The picture painted is in the end poignant.
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| Works by Milan Kundera | |
|---|---|
| Novels: The Joke | Laughable Loves | Life Is Elsewhere | The Farewell Waltz | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Immortality | Slowness | Identity | Ignorance | |
| Non-fiction: The Art of the Novel | Testaments Betrayed | The Curtain | |
| Plays: Jacques and His Master | |
