About the Book

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

• ISBN: 9780060927516
• ISBN 10: 0060927518
• Imprint: Harper Perennial
• On Sale: 08/02/1996
• Pages: 288
• List Price:19.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
• BISAC2 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Milan Kundera

Biography

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.

Other Works by Milan Kundera

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  Life Is Elsewhere

  By Milan Kundera

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  Testaments Betrayed

  By Milan Kundera

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  Laughable Loves

  By Milan Kundera