{"product_id":"testament-betrayed","title":"Testament Betrayed","description":"\u003cp\u003eTestaments 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 Kundera discusses the expe- rience of exile, and an impassioned attack on the shifting moral judgements and persecutions of art and artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby aron Manheimer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This collection of essays, like its predecessor The Art of the Novel, is a joy to read, and in its wealth of ideas puts many a more sober academic treatise to shame.\" Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Testaments Betrayed is a defence and illustration of culture now under siege from all the blithe laxities of postmodern relativism and if it works as well as it does, it is perhaps because it confronts that blitheness with its own songful brand of grace, with a fine quicksilvery intelligence and utterly without hysteria. In an age like ours, when everyone, to gain attention, walks on his hands, the individual who stands on his own two feet will be taken for an acrobat. Milan Kundera is just such an acrobat.' Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In a way, this book is nothing so much as a gauntlèt, thrown down by Kundera for both novelists and their readers to pick up - if we dare. And it is also a kind of aerobics class, in which all of us can attempt to work off our flabby hypocrisy, and try to assume some lean integrity Kundera's own canon may not exactly match our own, but that is one of the things that makes this book so stimulating admire Kundera's brea IBD his art. Observer . We can only f vision and devotion to his art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45691447705857,"sku":"3247G2EBL-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/milan.jpg?v=1729755535","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/testament-betrayed","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}