Ignorance
by Milan Kundera
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At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Paris, Prague, and a provincial city in Bohemia
- Characters: Irena, Josef, Martin, Gustaf, Sylvie, Irena’s mother, Josef’s brother, Josef’s sister-in-law, Josef’s stepdaughter, Milada, N.
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Paris, 1980's, Home, 1990's, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Popular music
- Locales: Paris, France, Bohemia, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Though first published in a Spanish translation, Ignorance is the latest of three novels that Milan Kundera has written in French after making his mark in his native Czech with poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction, most notably the novels Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli (1979; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1980) and L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être (1984; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984). Like many other Czech artists and intellectuals, Kundera was booted from the Communist Party after the Prague Spring of 1968, and...
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