Description
Two former lovers, reunited by chance after twenty years of exile, find their past lives irrevocably altered by the passage of time and the unreliability of memory. As they attempt to rekindle their connection, they confront the profound realization that their recollections of shared experiences no longer align, revealing the illusory nature of shared history. Kundera masterfully explores the themes of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, weaving a poignant narrative about the human condition and our inherent tendency to live within a vast, self-deceptive forgetting. This novel is a profound meditation on how we construct our identities and relationships through the fragmented lens of imperfect recall.
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paperback
Harper Perennial
Published Sep 30, 2003
208 pages
ISBN: 9780060002107
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First Published
2000
Language
cze
Translation
From: cze
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