Testaments Betrayed:an Essay in Nine P - Hardcover

Kundera, Milan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571173268 ISBN 13: 9780571173266

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1995

Synopsis

Written like a novel, this essay has nine sections, in each of which the same characters meet and cross each other's paths: Stravinsky and Kafka and their odd friends, Ansernet and Brod; Hemingway and his biographer; Janacek and his little nation; and Rabelais and his heirs, the great novelists.

About this title

Book Description:

Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera is an essay written like a novel, shedding light along the way on some of the great questions of our time.

About the Author:

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -- all originally in Czech. His more 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: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0571173268
• ISBN 13: 9780571173266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256