57 L ignorance Ignorance, Milan KunderaIgnorance French L 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, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year 2004 2006 1384 202 9789647033183 20 1385 173 9648564248 1391 172 9789642244331 1999 2000.
57 La lgnoranica Ignorance, Milan KunderaIgnorance French L 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, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year.
Czech expatriate Irena, who has been living in France, decides to return to her home after twenty years During the trip she meets, by chance, Josef, a fellow migr who was briefly her lover in Prague 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 Odyssean themes of homecoming It paints a poignant picture of love and its manifestations, a recurring theme in Kundera s novels The novel explores and centres aro After being somewhat disappointed recently with Identity, Ignorance marked a return to form for Kundera, and although this was a really good effort, at this point of his career I still think he was past his peak brilliance There is no doubt when he got it right, his gift of mingling politics, love, sex, history, and an exploration of subjectivity, really hits the spot, delivering a unique and captivating reading experience Ignorance sees Kundera tackling a humanly richer theme than in Identity, and I felt closer to his characters as a result of that It is written with a nostalgia for ones homeland, and in irony tells of the Odyssean homecoming, but its deeper concerns lie with memory and forgetting The set up is quite straightforward Two exiles and widows, Irena and Josef, settled in Paris and Copenhagen respectively, take a trip back to post Communist Prague to redi 13 24 35 44 48 83 87 92 68 I lost my review no idea how while copying it from my notes it could completely vanish No backup nothin I won t even consider writing another one Or typing out the excerpt I wanted to include again I m too mad Soa couple of quick tip of the tongue thoughts The reading is cerebral than experiential Thoughts about memory forgetting illusion nostalgia are running themes There is sadness in coming home returning home after twenty years away We follow two lovers who each have loss spouses and are haunted by their past Kundera is a complex interesting author to read Some of the writing is absolutely gorgeous Some is a bit over the top pretentious And I like Kundera enough to want to read his other books I own a few so in due time 3.
7 rating L Avenir, Tout Le Monde Se Trompe L Homme Ne Peut Tre S R Que Du Moment Pr Sent Mais Est Ce Bien Vrai Peut Il Vraiment Le Conna Tre, Le Pr Sent Est Il Capable De Le Juger Bien S R Que Non Car Comment Celui Qui Ne Conna T Pas L Avenir Pourrait Il Comprendre Le Sens Du Pr Sent Si Nous Ne Savons Pas Vers Quel Avenir Le Ù L'ignorance Ó Download by Í Milan Kundera Pr Sent Nous M Ne, Comment Pourrions Nous Dire Que Ce Pr Sent Est Bon Ou Mauvais, Qu Il M Rite Notre Adh Sion, Notre M Fiance Ou Notre Haine æ L'ignorance æ The vast the amount of time we ve left behind us, the irresistible is the voice calling us to return to itIn this poignant recount of two people, forced to bid goodbye to their native country, in the diminished, yet flickering hope of finding a brighter tomorrow in an alien land, almost 20 years ago from the present, unravels a story replete with questions than answers Irena and Josef have found comfortable refuge in their respective abodes at Paris and Copenhagen and have led a fairly decent life, battling through tags of migr s and periods of insuperable doubts Irena has outlived her husband, Martin, reared her two daughters dutifully and seems comfortably living her life with her partner, Gustaf , many years her senior Josef, after leading a few years of blissful matrimony with his Danish wife, had to surrender her to death which clutched Someone needs to give Milan Kundera a chill pill He s that dark brooding guy that sits at the back of a cafe staring moodily into his black coffee, the boyfriend you try for months to make love you but who at critical moments, suddenly declared it s all too base and animal, and you know, what is love anyway Just a social construct Etc etc Sometimes Ignorance reads beautifully I particularly enjoyed a lot of the musings on language and derivation of words, and their deviations between cultures.
But no one in a Kundera novel is ever happy Hell, not even content It makes it a tiresome read sometimes, and by the end you just want them to get the inevitable physical actions over and done with, so they can go back to staring meaningfully at strangers with potential Every action has a series of overwrought outcomes, and to be ho