The Laybrinth of Central Europe and the Paradise of Milan Kundera’s “Ignorance”

Hana Pichova is Associate Professor in the UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. She specializes in twentieth century Czech and Russian prose. Most of her published work focuses on literature in exile, specifically on how memory functions in Kundera’s and Nabokov’s works. Recently she has been pursuing an interest in how Czech literature refracts various cultural and architectural events that occurred in Czechoslovakia after WW II.