Kundera's novels depict a world full of thoughts and questions. These thoughts are always about the human being and his existence in this world of confusion and difficulty to live.
In this article we will look at the themes which are repeated in the works of Kundera, novel to novel, until the specifications and features make the obvious highlights of his novels. Notions of identity and immigration and the influence they get one from another, are notions that Kundera develops by processing his characters to thereby achieve a general understanding of mankind.
One of the fundamental problems that Kundera follows in his novels is the concept of identity, how it is formed and its transformations which is shown off in a different way in each novel. In this article, based on the novel Ignorance the identity of the immigrant characters in their mother land and in the second country are studied and the question of the inevitable immigration which often raises paradoxical sensations in characters, is examined.
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