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A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence 'their memories no longer match'. We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Then again, what can we expect of our weak memory? It records only 'an insignificant, minuscule particle' of the past, 'and no-one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit'. We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, a fact we refuse to recognise. Only those who return after twenty years, like Odysseus returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand.
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"Literary excellence . [Kundera's] irony and wit are .on target, his characters vivid and convincing." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Elegant . the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary." -- Time Out New York
"Precise and spare .page by page this novel is dazzling." -- Montreal Gazette
"An entertaining and thought-provoking work" -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Nothing short of masterful." -- Newsweek
"A tour de force." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Kundera is and elegant writer . He does a masterful job of reminding that the political is the personal." -- Rocky Mountain News
"Rendered with compassion and humor." -- Library Journal
"Moving . There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate." -- Boston Globe
"Literary excellence ... [Kundera's] irony and wit are ...on target, his characters vivid and convincing."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"Elegant . the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary." -- Time Out New York
"Precise and spare .page by page this novel is dazzling." -- Montreal Gazette
"An entertaining and thought-provoking work" -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Nothing short of masterful." -- Newsweek
"A tour de force." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Kundera is and elegant writer . He does a masterful job of reminding that the political is the personal." -- Rocky Mountain News
"Rendered with compassion and humor." -- Library Journal
"Moving . There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate." -- Boston Globe
"Literary excellence ... [Kundera's] irony and wit are ...on target, his characters vivid and convincing."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Ignorance by Milan Kundera is a literary masterpiece set in contemporary Prague, from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0571215521
- ISBN 13 9780571215522
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