Ignoranta milan kundera biography
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Ignorance
And that fascination apparently has withstood the test of time for me - maybe because deep down inside me a college philosopher still survives.
"Both of them are pidgeonholed, labeled, and they will be judged bygd how true they are to their labels (of course, that and that alone fryst vatten what's emphatically called "being true to oneself")."There's something about his books that makes them feel like narrative sketches, filled with author's musings in long, heavily punctuated sentences; ruminations about particular world experiences that finally, tangentially connect to the characters - and the characters themselves serving as just a canvas for Kundera's introspective reflections.
As with other Kundera's books that
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There was a time in my early twenties when I consumed Milan Kundera novels. The infatuation began at the end of my first year of university, on holiday in Menorca reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera expanded my horizons of what was possible in a novel: I think I was a little overawed. When I got back I typed up a passage and blue-tacked it to my wall.
"He considered music a liberating force. It liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library. It opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends."
Nearly a decade later I still know this quote word for word. It hung for years next to one from Nelson Mandela and another by someone else I can not now remember. Kundera offered everything I wanted at the time in a novel: lyrical prose, Eastern European communist settings, intellectual fodder. The flow of words, images poking through the prose, invocation of emotions I, in my yo
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Ignorance (novel)
2000 novel by Milan Kundera
Ignorance (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[1] by Linda Asher, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year.
Plot introduction
[edit]Czech expatriate Irena has been living in France since fleeing Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion. In 1989, when the Velvet Revolution overthrows the governing Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Irena decides to return to her home after twenty years of living as an exiled immigrant. During the trip she meets, by chance, Josef, a fellow émigré 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 no