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"Ignorance" Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
"Ignorance" Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
* Modern people are all strangers. This is an autobiography of every traveler away from home.
* Strangers in time: What we cannot return to is not only our hometown, but also the time that has passed
* In the future, in art, in any field, we will always be strangers
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"Ignorance" is the last book in what the French reading community calls the "Forgetting Trilogy" (the first two books are "Slowness" and "Identity"). The themes of Milan Kundera's early works are often inseparable from politics and sex, but in the later period, the political themes in his works gradually faded and the tendency of philosophical thinking became more obvious. "Ignorance" tells the story of a Czech who returned to his hometown in exile in the West to find his roots, but experienced confusion, disappointment and self-searching in the huge gap between reality and reality.
The novel tells the story of a heroine who returns to her homeland, the Czech Republic, after 20 years of exile. On her way home, she meets an old acquaintance at the Paris airport. However, things are different now, and it is difficult to continue the interrupted story, and it is difficult to feel at ease when returning. This is a Ulysses-like story: many themes such as motherland, nostalgia, love, self, aging, and reality are intertwined. Kundera once again demonstrates his calm and sad narrative ability to wander between the light and the heavy.
About the Author
Milan Kundera (1929- )
A world-renowned novelist and literary critic. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he has lived in France since 1975. He has written 16 works, including novels such as "The Joke", "Life is Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Immortality", "Slowness", "Identity", "Ignorance", "Celebrating Meaninglessness", short story collection "Laughable Love", essay collection "The Art of the Novel", "The Betrayed Will", "Curtain", "Meeting", and drama "Jacques and His Master". He won the Medici Foreign Novel Prize in 1973, the Jerusalem Literature Prize in 1985, the French Academy Literature Prize in 2001, and the Franz Kafka International Literature Prize in 2020.
Xu Jun
A famous French translator and French literature expert. He was the vice president of the Graduate School of Nanjing University, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Spanish Department of the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing University, and is currently a senior professor of liberal arts at Zhejiang University and executive vice president of the China Translators Association. He has written "Translation Theory", "Introduction to Translation Studies", "Theory and Practice of Literary Translation - Translation Dialogues", "Research on Literary Translation Criticism", etc. He has translated more than 30 French literary and social science works, such as "Remembrance of Things Past" (Volume 4), "Uncle Bons", "The Romantic Gentlemen", "The Alder King", "The Prosecution Record", etc. In 1999, he was awarded the French Gold Medal of Education by the French government, and in 2012, he was awarded the Special Contribution Award for Translation by the China Translators Association.
