Description
Discover the profound narrative of **Ignorance**, a novel by the acclaimed writer Milan Kundera, set against the captivating backdrop of contemporary Prague. This emotionally charged literary masterpiece intricately explores themes of **exile**, **memory**, and the complexities of human relationships. As you journey with the characters—who unexpectedly reunite after two decades—you'll delve into questions of identity and the nature of remembering and forgetting. Kundera masterfully crafts a tale where the past can never be fully reclaimed, revealing that our recollections are often fragmented and personal, influenced by perception and time. Readers are enveloped in a narrative that challenges the belief that our memories align with those we once loved, uncovering the **illusion of shared experiences**. Perfect for lovers of literary fiction, **Ignorance** not only offers an engaging story but also provokes deep reflection on loss, exile, and the essence of human connection. With 208 pages of thought-provoking prose, this BRAND NEW book, published by Faber in 2005, is a must-have for your collection. Utilize this opportunity to explore the depths of **Kundera's wisdom** and uncover the truths hidden within the goddess of ignorance. Enjoy prompt delivery right to your doorstep, ensuring that your journey into this literary world is just a click away.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780571215515
Year: 2005
Publisher: Faber
Pages: 208
Description:
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece.
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 as the memory 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, and we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780571215515
Year: 2005
Publisher: Faber
Pages: 208
Description:
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece.
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 as the memory 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, and we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.