Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.
Ignorance novel is a French novel written by Milan Kundera and translated by Linda Asher. This is the first novel that I have read. The story is simply about a man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland. I did not like the novel because the language is not easy, the explanation of the French words are very long which makes the story boring, and the novel contain many historical events that are uninteresting.