Le Grand Retour ou les Grands Adieux ? Le roman de l’exil chez Kundera

Milan Kundera, an intellectual born in Moravia who emigrated to France in 1975, in L’Ignorance leans on the myth of Ulysses to question contemporary realities of exile and return, nostalgia and oblivion. Does the hope of returning to the place of origin really haunt the modern émigré? To what extent does the notion of homeland still have meaning for him? And what happens when the émigré, unlike Ulysses the great nostalgic, prefers to stay with Calypso his lover rather than return to his native land and faithful wife Penelope? With some cynicism, Kundera in L’Ignorance offers scenarios of exile which desecrate and destabilize historically and culturally available standards while allowing us to reflect on new paradigmatic figures of contemporary exile.

Les voix de l’auteur dans et hors du texte

Table ronde organisée dans le cadre des journées «Écrire pour contre avec l’indignation comme moteur de création» par la Maison Rousseau et de la littérature de Genève. Autres intervenants: Heike Fiedler (poète sonore); Narcisse (slammeur). Modération: Camille Vorger.