Testaments betrayed

Informationen zum Autor The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke , Life Is Elsewhere , Farewell Waltz , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , and Immortality , and the short story collection Laughable Loves —all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness , Identity , Ignorance , and The Festival of Insignificance , as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed , The Curtain , and Encounter , were originally written in French. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.1996
• EAN: 9780060927516
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092751-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 204 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Theory of art, Germany, social and political philosophy, History of Art, history of design, Politics and government, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, PHILOSOPHY: LITERATURE, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / German, HISTORY: Europe / France, HISTORY: Europe / Eastern, PHILOSOPHY: Political, LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / French, Philosophy / Literature