The Virginia Quarterly Review, April 1st, 2003
Ignorance, by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher. According to Milan Kundera, author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, "a novel does not assert anything, a novel searches and poses questions." In his new novel, Ignorance, he explores "the enigma of memory" and nostalgia, and his central characters, emigres, question the value of returning to their homeland, a question Kundera, himself an emigre has pondered in other works. It is 1989. The Communists have fallen in Prague. Irena, a Czech expatriate, had left Prague with her husb...
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