Transcript Milan Kundera Ignorance

Milan Kundera
Ignorance
Title: Ignorance
Author: Milan Kundera
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 195
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ISBN: 0571215521
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Description
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, interuppted 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.
Milan Kundera has taken the concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and
transformed them into a brilliant and moving novel.
Insightful reviews
Mike: Milan Kundera has one of the most unique and immediately recognizable writing styles
I’ve ever encountered. Ignorance is the third of his novels I’ve read, and there was never any
doubt in my mind while reading it that, yep, it’s him all right. I find this experience of familiarity
with an author quite pleasant. The other two novels of his that I’ve read (The Unbearable
Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) are “better,” I suppose it ought to be
said, but Ignorance is another excellent if brief meditation on Kundera’s classic themes—love,
relationships, memory, history, politics, etc. Kundera reminds me of Yeats in the way he mixes
the personal and the public/political. It’s amazing that he is able to educate the reader enough
on 20th Century Czech history during the novel(s) to join him as he points out the truly
fascinating things going on throughout it. The connections Kundera consistently makes between
large-scale political actions affecting an entire nation of people and subtle, private moments
between two lovers are nothing short of brilliant.
Ignorance is about coming back, or the impossibility of coming back, or no… how coming back is
complicated. It’s about how some things change, and other things stay the same, and neither is
what you would have predicted. Two Czech emigrants return to Prague after the fall of
Communism, and their complex relationships with their home and with each other are not
simplified but further entangled. After years of questions about themselves, their friends, and
their country, their Grand Returns defy expectations and leave them with more, and more
challenging, questions.
Perhaps what is most enjoyable about Kundera is his conversationalist tone, as if he’s sitting in
the room with you just sharing his observations and ideas over a drink. He does not simply
present a scene and leave you to interpret and analyze it as you will, but instead is quite eager
to tell you why he finds it so fascinating (and in a pretty straightforward and affable manner).
I’ve never disagreed with him. I really ought to own at least one of his books so that I can
underline and note various sentences and paragraphs—not only are they profound and moving
in their often bittersweet simplicity now, but I suspect I will have a wonderful time rereading at
least one of his books in the future when I find myself in a completely different stage of my life.
Then again, maybe it’s appropriate that I’m not highlighting and annotating in the margins,
because when I reread Kundera in the future, the text will be the same, but I won’t be, and all
the scribbles and circles and stars I may trace next to and around the ink on the page won’t
allow me to completely recapture then what I’m experiencing with the text now. How
bittersweet. How Kundera.
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Becky: 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 honest, I'm not really sure what the point is. A
musing on the emigrant experience? Perhaps? Diary of a guy who thinks too much? For sure.
Chill out, Milan. You write well. You just dwell too much.
Fewlas: ”In spagnolo, añoranza viene dal verbo añorar («provare nostalgia»), che viene dal
verbo catalano enyorar, a sua volta derivato dal latino ignorare. Alla luce di questa etimologia, l.
a. nostalgia appare come l. a. sofferenza dell’ignoranza. Tu sei lontano, e io non so che ne è di
te. Il mio paese è lontano, e io non so cosa succede laggiù."Irena e Josef si incontrano in line
with caso. Il loro incontro dura pochissimo, il pace di iniziare una storia d’amore e di
considerarla finita senza averla mai vissuta. Si rincontrano poi dopo tanti anni, dopo il loro esilio,
durante il loro ritorno in patria. Entrambi coscienti di quel viaggio che li farà approdare in una
terra che non è più los angeles loro. Come Ulisse riconobbe l’ulivo che divenne quindi
certificazione del suo effettivo ritorno in patria, Irena e Josef riconosceranno luoghi dimenticati
da tempo, parleranno con vecchie amicizie, mai sentendosi però, effettivamente, di nuovo a
casa. Perché manca loro l’opportunità di narrare. Nessuno chiede niente di quegli anni di esilio.
E, senza l’esperienza della narrazione, senza il dono demiurgico della parola, los angeles loro
vita resta ancorata al passato, non si trasporta con loro verso casa, non ha il pace di
affezionarsi di nuovo ai luoghi dell’infanzia che già viene di nuovo strappata via.È
estremamente difficile esprimere in poche righe il contenuto di questo romanzo. Sebbene esso
sia di breve respiro, si estende come un infinito poema ben oltre los angeles sua conclusione.
Ogni parola di Kundera è un piede giambico che ricostruisce un poema che narra di viaggi
interminabili. Perché, a ben vedere, dietro l’esilio di Ulisse, o di Irena, o di Josef, si intravede l.
a. ricerca di una patria nascosta. Di quei dolci momenti in cui los angeles propria esistenza non
ha bisogno di guardare al futuro, nella speranza di qualcosa di migliore, o al passato, nel
rimpianto di qualcosa perduto. l. a. nostalgia è una sofferenza talmente specialty che basta a se
stessa. E annulla i ricordi. A Parigi, Irena non ha compatrioti con i quali parlare del suo passato,
così i suoi ricordi pian piano svaniscono. Resta il dolore della nostalgia, che basta a se stesso.
E, nel tentativo di trovare un fratello col quale condividere questo vuoto, Irena rincontra in step
with caso Josef, malato di memoria masochistica, che cancella il passato ogni qualvolta che
questo gli rende il presente invivibile.Due esuli. In fuga dalla patria, da loro stessi. Bisognosi
d’una riva, come lo siamo tutti, in fondo.Questo romanzo è a dir poco commovente. È di una
dolcezza e di una verità struggenti. Uno di quei libri che ti insegnano tanto e che devono essere
a più riprese rispolverati in keeping with ripassarne l. a. lezione e ricordarne los angeles
bellezza. Che almeno questa non fugga via.
Seemita: "The extra sizeable the volume of time we have left in the back of us, the extra
impossible to resist is the voice calling us to come to it." during this poignant recount of 2
people, pressured to bid see you later to their local country, within the diminished, but flickering
wish of discovering a brighter the next day to come in an alien land, nearly twenty years in the
past from the present, unravels a narrative replete with extra questions than answers. Irena and
Josef have came across cozy shelter of their respective abodes at Paris and Copenhagen and
feature led a reasonably first rate life, combating via tags of émigrés and sessions of
insuperable doubts. Irena has outlived her husband, Martin, reared her daughters dutifully and
turns out very easily residing her lifestyles together with her partner, Gustaf , decades her
senior. Josef, after best many years of glad matrimony together with his Danish wife, needed to
hand over her to loss of life which clutched the palms of a critical ailment to carry down the
curtains. whereas it isn't transparent no matter if it used to be the insistence of Irena’s buddy
and the final request of Josef’s death spouse or the insufferable curse of her life’s banality and
the inescapable pain of his loneliness that caused the house coming, but if either took their
flights to Prague, they have been like light, aimless clouds, who felt justified in being swayed
adrift, due to the fact that their hearts have been a flutter of what they needed it to be and any
probability of bathing in a sunnier sky used to be helpful the suspension in skinny air. yet upon
their arrivals, they get arrested in stifled laughs, hushed accusations, hesitant embraces and
above all, a negative wave of intermittent nostalgia. Josef reads from the diary of an adolescent
Josef, which he by chance reveals within the discarded little field passed over to him at his
brother’s place, approximately his younger love curiosity - "The wish to believe compassion for
her and the need to make her endure are one and a similar desire.”He walks the town to
identify novel alterations which prick his eyes with their glossy our bodies and he eloquently
feels that “during his absence, an invisible broom had swept around the panorama of his
childhood, wiping away every little thing familiar; the come upon he had anticipated by no
means took place.” Irena, on her part, falls into the very capture she had attempted so valiantly
to escape two decades ago; her garrulous mother’s circle of influence. She thinks she will
break out her tyranny via escaping the brick condo however the roads too look mercilessly
hostile. She wears an area dress, she reveals in a urban shop, to seem (and feel) certainly one
of them but if she appears herself within the mirror, the gown itself appeared to have disowned
her, accusing her of a traitor who couldn't pass though the ache of this country; a coward who
didn't have the braveness to endure her person fight within the curiosity of her nation.Both Irena
and Josef hold trudging right into a global they felt was once theirs all alongside yet upon
touching which emptied into the private throes in their comprehension, from the place they can
now not retrieve it, regardless of made up our minds measures. The accepted pictures look
respiring in the back of a veil of forgotten identity, rendering the full snapshot a nebulous
element. Their families, associates and well-wishers have been like far away desires which
glance appealing to think about and will be an reduction of convenience for passing time yet
carry no final result if chased.The tale culminates with Irena and Josef bumping into each one
other, which all of sudden feels like the one useful occasion in their domestic coming, for its
during this probability meeting, that they locate redemption in their individualities, their offerings
and their fates. Kundera handles the nuances of human brain with a professional eye, which
catches each skipped beat, which arrests each fleeting thought. residing in lengthy discomfort
turns it a friend. Then the single photograph power conjures is that of an adversary. the tips of
forgotten and nostalgia locate utter good looks in his nuanced hands. Recreating Odyssey and
drawing startling parallels among the protagonists used to be a category piece of emotional
legerdemain. And his laced language had a sophisticated undertone of poetry which was once
awesome to come across at a number of bends of this book. i'll log out with this gorgeous
metaphorical gift: “She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and whilst the curtain of oblivion wraps
her lewdnesses in an all-concealing darkness. as though a poet have been writing his maximum
poem with ink that immediately disappears.”
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