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  • By: Milan Kundera
  • Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
  • Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: July 31, 2012
  • Language: English
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A New York Times Notable Book

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence “their memories no longer match.”

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Richmond Hoxie is the narrator of Ignorance audiobook that was written by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves–all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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Narrator Richmond Hoxie
Length 4 hours 20 minutes
Author Milan Kundera
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date July 31, 2012
ISBN 9780062215581

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The publisher of the Ignorance is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062215581.

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Goodreads Reviews

Ahmad

February 05, 2022

(Book 57 from 1001 books) - L'ignorance = Ignorance, Milan KunderaCzech expatriate Irena, who has been living in France, decides to return to her home after twenty years. During the trip she meets, by chance, Josef, a fellow émigré who was briefly her lover in Prague. The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland, which has ceased to be a home. In doing so, it reworks the Odyssean themes of homecoming. It paints a poignant picture of love and its manifestations, a recurring theme in Kundera's novels. The novel explores and centres around the way that people have selective memories as a precursor to ignorance. The concept of ignorance is presented as a two-fold phenomenon; in which ignorance can be a willing action that people participate in, such as avoiding unpleasant conversation topics or acting out. Yet also exploring the involuntary aspects of being ignorant, such as feigning ignorance of the past or avoiding the truth.عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «جهالت»؛ «بی‌خبری»؛ نوشته: میلان کوندرا؛ (روشنگران) ادبیات؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هشتم ماه سپتامبر سال2004میلادی و بار دیگر ماه آوریل سال2006میلادیعنوان: جهالت؛ نوشته: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: آرش حجازی؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، کاروان، سال1384، در202ص، شابک9789647033183؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان کشور چک سده20معنوان: بی خبری؛ نوشته: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: فروغ پوریاوری؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، روشنگران، سال1385، در173ص، شابک9648564248؛ عنوان: بی خبری؛ نوشته: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: میترا میرشکار؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، علم، سال1391، در172ص، شابک9789642244331؛جهالت دهمین رمان «میلان کوندرا»، نویسنده ی «چک - فرانسوی» است؛ که در سال1999میلادی، کتاب را به زبان «فرانسوی» نوشته، و نخستین بار در سال2000میلادی چاپ شده‌ است؛ برگردان انگلیسی این رمان، برنده ی جایزه ی «اسکات مونکریف» شد؛ مضمون این داستان درباره ی مهاجرت، غربت و نوستالژی است؛ این کتاب در ایران، نخستین بار با ترجمه ی جناب آقای «آرش حجازی»، توسط نشر «کاروان»، منتشر شده است؛ داستان آدمهای دور افتاده از وطنشان همچون «ادیسه» است؛ آدمهایی که در «بیخبری» از زادگاهشان احساس غربت و دلتنگی میکنند و یا نمیکنند؛ «کوندرا» در اینجا حس نوستالژی را به حس بیخبری و سردرگمی ناشی از دوری از وطن تعبیر کرده است؛ نگرانیها و دغدغه های کارکترهای اصلی این رمان که از وطنشان «چک» دور افتاده اند؛ گویی نگرانیها و دغدغه های خود «میلان کوندرا» باشد؛ که سالها از وطنش «چک» دور افتاده بود و گویی نگرانیها و دغدغه های همه ی دور افتادگان از کشور «چک»است نقل از متن: (کوچ پرندگان را دیده‌ ام، و شنیده‌ ام؛ آن‌ها می‌‌روند، به دیاری دیگر، برای یافتن آب و دانه، و در این میان، باز می‌گردند به سرزمین‌شان...)؛ پایان نقلتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 27/12/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 16/11/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Ahmad

April 28, 2022

(Book 57 from 1001 books) - La Ignoranica = Ignorance, Milan KunderaIgnorance is a novel by Milan Kundera. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was translated into English in 2002 by Linda Asher, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year.Czech expatriate Irena, who has been living in France, decides to return to her home after twenty years. During the trip she meets, by chance, Josef, a fellow émigré who was briefly her lover in Prague. The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland, which has ceased to be a home. In doing so, it reworks the Odyssean themes of homecoming. It paints a poignant picture of love and its manifestations, a recurring theme in Kundera's novels. The novel explores and centers around the way that people have selective memories as a precursor to ignorance. The concept of ignorance is presented as a two-fold phenomenon; in which ignorance can be a willing action that people participate in, such as avoiding unpleasant conversation topics or acting out. Yet also exploring the involuntary aspects of being ignorant, such as feigning ignorance of the past or avoiding the truth.عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «بی‌خبری»؛ «جهالت»؛ نویسنده: میلان کوندرا؛ انتشاراتیها (روشنگران و کاروان) ادبیات؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه آوریل سال2006میلادیعنوان: بیخبری؛ نویسنده: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: میترا میرشکار؛ تهران، انتشارات علم، سال1391؛ در172ص؛ شابک9789642244331؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان چک - سده20معنوان: بیخبری؛ نویسنده: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: فروغ پوریاوری؛ تهران، انتشارات روشنگران، چاپ دوم سال1385؛ در173ص؛ شابک9648564248؛ عنوان: جهالت؛ نویسنده: میلان کوندرا؛ مترجم: آرش حجازی؛ تهران، کاروان، سال1380؛ در202ص؛ شابک9647033184؛ چاپهای سوم و چهارم سال1381؛ چاپ پنجم سال1382؛ چاپ نهم سال1387؛دو مهاجر چک‌ «ایرنا» و «یوزف»، پس‌ از بیست‌ سال‌ به‌ کشور خود باز می‌گردند، در فرودگاه‌ «پاریس‌» باهم‌ دیدار‌ می‌کنند؛ «ایرنا» به‌ یاد می‌آورد که‌ زمانی‌ در جوانی، عاشق‌ «یوزف‌» بوده است؛ اما «یوزف‌» هیچ‌ یادمانی‌ از «ایرنا» ندارد؛ در خلال‌ آن دیدار‌ عاشقانه، روشن‌ می‌شود که‌ حتی خودشان‌ هم‌ به‌ یاد نمی‌آورند چه کسی بوده ‌اند، و اکنون‌ کی‌ هستند؛ پس‌زمینه ‌ی ماجراهای داستان «جهالت»، نوستالژی درد ناآگاهی است؛ آن‌چه «ایرنا» و «یوزف» را در دوران مهاجرت آزار می‌داد «نوستالژی» بوده: «دانستن اینکه از آن‌چه دور از آن‌هاست، بی‌خبر هستند»؛ «کوندرا» در این داستان، گذری به داستان «ادیسه» می‌زند، حماسه‌ ای که بنیان‌گذار نوستالژی شد، و زایش فرهنگ باستانی «یونان»، با آن داستان آغاز گردید؛ «اولیس» بزرگ‌ترین ماجراجوی تمام دوران، به جنگ «تروا» رفت، و ده سال جنگید، و سپس شتافت تا به سرزمین مادری‌ خویش «ایتاکا» برگردد؛ اما دسیسه‌ ی خدایان، سفرش را طولانی کرد؛ سه سال نخست سفر، پر از ماجراهای ناباورانه و شگفت انگیز بود، و سپس، به عنوان گروگان، در کنار پری‌ ای به نام «کالیپسو» سر کرد، «کالیپسو» چنان عاشق و گرفتار «اولیس» شده بود، که نمی‌گذاشت «اولیس» او را ترک کند؛ در طول بیست سال غیبت «اولیس»، اهالی «ایتاکا (زادگاهش)»، یادمانهای بسیاری از او در یاد نگاه داشته بودند، اما هرگزی دل‌تنگش نمی‌شدند و ...؛نقل از متن: (کوچ پرندگان را دیده‌ ام، و شنیده‌ ام؛ آن‌ها می‌‌روند به دیاری دیگر، برای یافتن آب و دانه، و در این میان باز می‌گردند به سرزمین‌شان...)؛ پایان نقلتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 13/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 08/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Mutasim

August 21, 2020

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”Ignorance is Kundera's tribute to the émigré. The story revolves around a woman called Irena, a Czech expatriate living in France, and her return to her homeland. On returning she meets Josef, a fellow émigré whom she knew from the past as a lover.The novel examines the feelings of returning to an unfamiliar homeland after a long time, drawing parallels with Homer's Odyssey to prove its point. The novel explores love and its many forms of manifestations and the use of differing perspectives to prove a comical portrayal of selective memory leading to ignorance. The novel explains willful ignorance as a form of avoidance of unpleasant realities and also illustrates a picture of involuntary ignorance as denial of the past or feigning ignorance of the truth. “During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing." “And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.”One of my favorite passages from the book include the story of Jónas Hallgrímsson and the fate of his remains.".....nobody much cares where a dead person's bones wind up."An enjoyable read.

Elyse

September 27, 2018

I lost my review- no idea how while copying it from my notes it could completely vanish. No backup - nothin!!I won’t even consider writing another one. Or typing out the excerpt I wanted to include. ( again)... I’m too mad! So...a couple of quick tip of the tongue thoughts: The reading is more cerebral than experiential. Thoughts about memory - forgetting- illusion & nostalgia are running themes ...There is sadness in coming home... returning home after twenty years away. We follow two lovers who each have loss spouses and are haunted by their past. Kundera is a complex- interesting author to read. Some of the writing is absolutely gorgeous. Some is a bit over-the-top pretentious. And... I like Kundera enough to want to read his other books. ( I own a few more)... so in due time! 3.7 rating

Alvarohernandez_81

May 20, 2022

¿Qué pasará cuando el exiliado vuelve a su patria después de permanecer muchos años en el extranjero? ¿Qué significa para él el reencuentro con su ciudad natal y con la gente que conocía y amaba antes de exiliarse? Estas son las cuestiones planteadas por Milan Kundera en "La Ignorancia".La novela es la historia sobre la pérdida de la patria. Narra sobre los sentimientos de una mujer y un hombre checos que habían emigrado de la Checoslovaquia comunista y que visitan su patria después de que ésta recuperara la libertad.Al pasar varios días en Praga, los dos ven que aunque hablan el mismo idioma que los praguenses, ya no los entienden, no comparten su estilo de vida, sus opiniones y su modo de pensar. El exilio ha erigido entre los exiliados y la población checa un muro de ignorancia y desarraigo.Los protagonistas llegan a la conclusión de que para ellos su patria de origen ha dejado de existir y regresan a los países que les acogieron y donde iniciaron una nueva vida.Kundera, decidió publicar la novela primero en español y catalán, y no en francés, idioma en el que publicó sus libros anteriores. La traductora al castellano de "La Ignorancia", Beatriz de Moura, explica que el escritor checo se sintió atraído por los refugiados espanoles de la Guerra Civil desatada en 1936. Por ello optó por estrenar su última novela en un "país de emigración", tal como se refirió a España.

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