Ignorance
by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
Ignorance by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher holds a well received rating of 3.76 out of 5, based on 9.6K reader ratings. First published in 2000. The book spans 195 pages.
About Ignorance
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they had chosen 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 recognize. 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 firsthand.Milan Kundera is the only author today who can take such dizzying concepts as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.Author Biography: The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, for more than twenty years. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, The Farewell Party, The Books of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves, all originally written in Czech. Like Slowness, his two earlier nonfiction works, The Art ofthe Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | Milan Kundera, Linda Asher |
| Published | 2000 |
| Pages | 195 |
| Genres | Fiction, Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Romance |
| Average Rating | 3.76 / 5.00 |
| Total Ratings | 9,625 |
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What genre is Ignorance?
Ignorance is categorized as Fiction, Philosophy, Fiction, Classics. Its primary genre classification is Romance.
Is Ignorance worth reading?
Based on 9.6K reader ratings, Ignorance has an average score of 3.76 out of 5.00, which is considered "Well Received."
How many pages is Ignorance?
Ignorance has 195 pages. It is a relatively quick read.
Who wrote Ignorance?
Ignorance was written by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher. It was first published in 2000.
What is the ISBN for Ignorance?
The ISBN-13 for Ignorance is 9780060002110.0.
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