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Title: Ignorance : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0-06-000209-3 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (31 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The Joke
Comment: Ignorance is well crafted much like Unbearable Ligthness of Being. However I still recommend everyone to pick up The Joke, one of Kundera's earlier and controversial works.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sorry for such a low rating
Comment: I am truly sorry for having given such a low rating for this book. But my conscience didn't allow me to give a rating higher than 2 stars. Having gone through 2/3 of the book, I decided that I should not continue my reading. This book did not bring me the excitement I had when I was reading his other magnum opus. This book is about the return of two Czech emigre and what these two people, certainly a man and a woman, encounter on their native land. Kundera, as usually, mixes eroticism in his work. He also employs his usual way of constructing stories: writing about how each of the main characters thinks and feels in each one's own perspectives. But written in French, this book doesn't have the brilliance of his other books...I don't think he truly masters French as well as his own language.
Rating: 4
Summary: Intelligent and unique but probably not for a wide audience
Comment: I read this book at the recommendation of my father, who immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1960s. He told me that it expressed what he felt when he paid his old home a visit a few years ago. I appreciated the author's words regarding the returning Czech immigrants in the book. They return home to a country that is much changed from what they remember. At least one of them realizes that he's been missing a country that no longer exists. Even his native language has come to sound strange to his ears. The reactions of other people in the book were interesting too - no one in the home country asks their returning friends or relatives about their lives in their adopted countries. I remember that same kind of strange silence when I visited Hungary with my family. The author's words ring extremely true. This isn't the type of book I normally read and I appreciated learning from the author's point of view. I had trouble distinguishing between his characters, though. They are not fleshed out, and the plot is slight. It's a book more about the feelings and observations of an emigrant/immigrant. That's very valuable, but I suspect the audience for the work is small. I definitely recommend the book.
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Title: Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060930314 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932147 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher ISBN: 0060997028 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Immortality by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932384 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Slowness: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060928417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 21 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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