Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an Paperback - 1996
by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Here Kundera proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator's wishes.
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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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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.
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- Title Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an
- Author Milan Kundera
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scarborough, ON, Canada
- Date 1996-08-02
- ISBN 9780060927516 / 0060927518
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.41 x 0.74 in (20.40 x 13.74 x 1.88 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.3
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- New York Times, 12/08/1996, Page 101
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