Kundera On Nostalgia

During the twenty years of Odysseus’ absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.
We can comprehend this curious contradiction if we realize that for memory to function well, it needs constant practice: if recollections are not evoked again and again, in conversations with friends, they go.

10 Comments

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    May 12, 2004 @ 3:54 am

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    No me gust

  2. dob

    May 12, 2004 @ 6:37 am

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    >The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes

    No lo veo as

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    May 12, 2004 @ 9:41 am

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    May 12, 2004 @ 11:33 pm

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    A mi me gusta la simetria, y pienso que se non e vero e ben trovato. En cualquier caso es afectante, y me hace darme una palmada en la frente pensando que es por eso que ya no entiendo nada de lo que dicen los de alli; mis recuerdos, como las tortugas de las galapagos, han evolucionado de manera distinta?

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    May 13, 2004 @ 6:10 am

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