Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts - Hardcover

Kundera, Milan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060171456 ISBN 13: 9780060171452

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

Examines the art of fiction, focusing on the literature's history, its structure, and the creative process

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Review:

Milan Kundera, one of the twentieth century's masters of fiction and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, offers a brilliant and thought provoking essay, following in the tradition of his highly regarded The Art of the Novel. 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 once again celebrates the art of the novel, from its birth in a spirit of humor unique to European culture and sensibility - illustrated by some wonderful examples from the work of Rabelais and Cervantes - through its flowering in successive centuries. He celebrates the particular wisdom the novel offers about human existence.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060171456
• ISBN 13: 9780060171452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288