Genre: | Literature |
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Language : | English |
Published: | August 02, 1996 |
Edition: | 12th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780060927516 |
ISBN10: | 0060927518 |
Dimensions: | 5.31 x 8.0 x 0.65 inches |
Weight: | 245 g |
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.