In Ignorance, Milan Kundera presents us with a powerful text about exile and the impossibility of any real return to the country we left. He tells us, in an intimate and sometimes rude manner about his characters, about exile and alienation from roots, and as a result, about longing, return, and the loneliness of return marked by disappointment.
The two characters at the center of this book are Irina and Joseph, who understand the history far from their homeland, and decide to return to their country on a short vacation.
Milan Kundera's characters go, come, and seek to dock somewhere, destinies intersect, collide, and fail, and then contradictory feelings mix while the face of ignorance remains everywhere, omnipresent: ignorance of the country, ignorance of developments and changes, and also ignorance of people with regard to their similarities, through a game of falsification. Memory or fragility of relationships.
158 pages
