num_pages: 195
description: Ignorance...is a compact exploration of variations on a theme: that of "home", nostalgia for homeland, and the irony of the Odyssean homecoming. Yet like much of Kundera's fiction, its deeper concern is with memory and forgetting. Challenging the "moral hierarchy of emotions" laid down when Homer "glorified nostalgia with a laurel wreath," Ignorance tilts at the romantic assumption that separation from the land of one's birth must be a kind of death - just as, for the artist, it is casually and erroneously assumed to be the death of creativity. -- Maya Jaggi, The Guardian, Nov. 16, 2002
language: English
title: Ignorance
titlecomplete: Ignorance
characters: Irena, Josef
genres: Fiction, France, European Literature, Philosophy, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 23115
places: Prague (Praha)
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Linda Asher, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Harper