not knowing

1968. Soviet tanks in Prague. The end of the Prague Spring has come. Irena is one of the many immigrants who left their homeland. Irena, who settled in Paris with her husband, is left alone after his death. In this place where he has made his home, there is no one who will understand or 'know' his feelings and longings. Years later, with the end of the cold war, he begins to visit his old homeland frequently. On one of these journeys, he meets Josef, another former immigrant, at the airport. Josef is a page from his past, from which he has never been able to break away, but from which he has become estranged. The journey to Prague, which they take for completely different reasons, will add new circles to Irena and Josef's homelessness and longings. A novel about not knowing, about remembering, about loneliness, alienation, homelessness, memory and forgetting. It is definitely one of Milan Kundera's most important works in terms of intensity, depth, sensitivity and interpretation. Milan Kundera, who passionately examines the situation of 'being an immigrant', which has become one of the most current problems of humanity, within psychological and political patterns, has included his personal history so clearly in his novel for the first time. This last novel of Milan Kundera, one of the writers who left his mark on the 20th century, is published in Turkey and in Turkish before France, the country where he lived and wrote.
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Number of Pages: 133

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayinlari

Number of Pages: 133

First Publication Year: 2013

Language: Turkish