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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002
ISBN 10: 0060002093ISBN 13: 9780060002091
Seller: Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions, St. Johnsbury, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is the Softcover Advance Reader's Edition of the book that was published in October 2002. 195 pages. Kundera is the only author today who can take dizzying concepts such as absence, memory, forgetting and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection.
Published by Harper Collins, 2006, 2006
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition Very close to fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Excellent essays. Gift quality.
Published by HarperCollins (1995), NY, 1995
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: VG PB. Where have all the amblers of the past gone, why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared, where have they gone the amblers of yesterday? These loafing heroes of folk song, these vagadonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars?.
Published by Grove Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0802100112ISBN 13: 9780802100115
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. First American Grove Press edition, Quality Paperback Book Club edition 1988. Cover features cartoon of 2 hands circle-pointing at title & author w/red dot on his I. Bright, clean & tight paperback, unread, in FINE condition. 7 essays in which "Kundera examines the evolution, construction, and essence of the novel as an art form through the lens of his own work and through the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka, and perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time, Hermann Broch. As witty, original, and far-reaching as his unique fiction, Kundera offers his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, the creation of character in the post-psychological novel and his reflections on the state of the modern European novel." Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued. "Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic. The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony."---The New Yorker.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1996
ISBN 10: 0060173696ISBN 13: 9780060173692
Seller: Librairie Le Nord, Hearst, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 138 mm X 208 mm. 156 pages. Ex library book. First edition.
Published by HarperCollins, 1995
ISBN 10: 0060171456ISBN 13: 9780060171452
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "A brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the 20th century's masters of fiction, TESTAMENTS BETRAYED follows in the tradition of Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel. 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." [jacket copy] Chapters include "The Day Panurge No Longer Makes People Laugh," "Improvisation in Homage to Stravinsky," "The Unloved Child of the Family," "You're Not in Your Own House Here, My Dear Fellow." Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, intact & beautiful jacket featuring illustration by Picasso. All quite presentable.