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About this audiobook
"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." —New York Times Book Review
"Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread." — Washington Post
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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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (3.5K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreLiterary Classics
Length7 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byGraeme Malcolm
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 23, 2012
LanguageEnglish
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