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Although the dominant theme of the book is the experience of emigres returning to their homeland (specifically the Czech Republic), Kundera also ruminates on larger subjects such as death, memory, time, and relationships (between men and women particularly). It may help to know a little bit of Czech history before picking up this book to understand the context, but overall Kundera's thoughts and ideas tend to the universal. The story follows the lives of two main protagonists, however, Kundera's
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Memory is our ignorance. The desire to belong is our ignorance. Our absorption with our life and not another's is our ignorance. Kundera's novel is a marvelous meditation on loss, return and forgetting. This book is poignant and powerful.
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