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Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an

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Availability:In StockContributor:Milan KunderaPublish date:1996-08-02Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060927516ISBN-10:60927518UPC:9780060927516Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, EuropeanBook Topic:Eastern, FrenchSize:8.03 x 5.41 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCC175FB8Z

"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." --New York Times Book Review

"Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread." -- Washington Post

A brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century's masters of fiction, Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera is a passionate defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both--often by their most passionate proponents--is one of the key ideas that informs this strikingly original and elegant book.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060927516ISBN-10:60927518UPC:9780060927516Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, EuropeanBook Topic:Eastern, FrenchSize:8.03 x 5.41 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCC175FB8Z
Kundera, Milan: -

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves--all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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