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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 · · · · · ·
"Ignorance" tells the story of a Czech who went into exile in the West and returned to his hometown to search for his roots, but experienced confusion, disappointment and self-searching in the huge gap between reality and reality. People constantly criticize those who distort, rewrite, and falsify their past, or expand the importance of a certain event without mentioning another event; such criticism is fair (they cannot be unfair), but before that, a more basic criticism must be made, that is, the criticism of human memory itself, because human memory can only retain a pitiful small part of the past. This choice is mysteriously carried out in each of us, beyond our will and our interests.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Milan Kundera (1929- ) is a Czech novelist, born in Brno, Czech Republic. His father is a pianist and professor at the Academy of Music and Art. He thinks that growing up in a small country is an advantage, because in a small country, "you can either be a poor, narrow-minded person" or a "worldly person" with extensive knowledge. In his childhood, he learned to compose music and received a good musical education. In his youth, he began to read a wide range of world literary masterpieces. In his youth, he wrote poems and scripts, painted, made music and taught film. In short, in his own words, "I have been groping around in the field of art, trying to find my direction." In the early 1950s, he entered the literary world as a poet and published poetry collections such as "Man, a Vast Garden" (1953), "Monologue" (1957) and "The Last May". But poetry writing is obviously not his long-term pursuit. Finally, when he wrote his first short story at the age of 30, he was sure that he had found his direction and embarked on the road of novel writing.
In 1967, his first novel, The Joke, was published in the Czech Republic and was a huge success. Three editions were printed in amazing numbers, and each time they were sold out within a few days. The author's important position in the contemporary Czech literary world was thus established. But the good times did not last long. In 1968, after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, The Joke was listed as a banned book. Kundera lost his position at the Film Academy. It was difficult for him to continue his literary creation. Under this circumstance, he and his wife left the Czech Republic in 1975 and came to France.
After moving to France, he quickly became one of the most beloved foreign writers by French readers. Most of his works, such as Laughter and Forgetting (1978), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Immortality (1990), etc., first became popular in France and then attracted the attention of the world literary world. He has won many international literary awards and has been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times.
In addition to novels, Kundera has also published three collections of essays on the art of the novel, among which The Art of the Novel (1936) and The Betrayed Testament (1993) have been widely circulated around the world.
Kundera is good at using irony and humor to describe the human condition. His works appear lighthearted but are actually heavy; appear casual but are actually exquisite; appear popular but are actually profound and witty, full of life wisdom. Because of this, "Kundera fever" has been set off again and again in many countries around the world.
Kundera originally wrote in Czech, but in recent years he has begun to try writing in French, and has published two novels, Slowness (1995) and Identity (1997).
