An edition of Les testaments trahis (1993)

Testaments Betrayed

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An edition of Les testaments trahis (1993)

Testaments Betrayed

New Ed edition
  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 15 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

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 notes the novel's mysterious kinship with music and the parallel (but not simultaneous) evolution of the two arts in the West, as well as the particular wisdom the novel offers about human existence.

The art of translation is the subject of one part of the book, illuminating the significance of its title. 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 on the principal themes of Testaments Betrayed.

Testaments Betrayed is a book rich in ideas about the time in which we live and how we have become who we are, about Western culture in general. It is also a personal essay, in which Kunder discusses the experience of exile - and an impassioned attack on the shifting moral judgements and persecutions of art and artist.

Publish Date
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pages
256

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Cover of: Testaments Betrayed
Testaments Betrayed
May 6, 2004, Faber and Faber
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Testaments Betrayed
Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, An
September 11, 1996, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: Bei bei pan di yi zhu
Bei bei pan di yi zhu
1995, Niu jin da hsueh chu ban she, Ren ming chu ban she
in Chinese - Di yi ban
Cover of: Testaments betrayed
Testaments betrayed: an essay in nine parts
1995, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Les testaments trahis
Les testaments trahis: essai
1993, Gallimard
in French

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Library of Congress
, PN3365

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
Weight
7 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7856766M
Internet Archive
testamentsbetray0000kund
ISBN 10
0571173373
ISBN 13
9780571173372
OCLC/WorldCat
36836638
Library Thing
1381512
Goodreads
253125

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"The pregnant Madame Grandgousier ate too much tripe, and they had to give her a purgative; it was so strong that the placenta let go, the fetus Gargantua slipped into a vein, traveled up her system, and came out of his mama's ear."

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