Testaments betrayed
Synopsis
Kafka, Stravinsky, Rushdie - the modern artist confuses and often outrages critics looking for the clarity of orthodoxy. In this stimulating, free-form essay, Kundera defends the artist against obtuse or perverse critics, disciples, and allies. Thus he rescues Kafka the artist from the embrace of disciples who want to remake him into a thinker. Likewise, he brings the genius of Stravinsky out from under the shadow of the misguided criticism of a close friend. Similarly, Kundera reclaims Rushdie's Satanic Verses as an imaginative work from progressive intellectuals who have never read it but have claimed it as a political symbol of the need for a free press. Discipleship, friendship, and comradeship can all turn into betrayal. Against such betrayal, Kundera insists upon the creative autonomy of the novelist and the composer, whose works live in an ambiguous sphere outside of all history except the capricious history of human creativity.
- కాపీరైట్:
- 1995 London : Faber and Faber
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780571173266
- Publisher:
- London : Faber and Faber
- Date of Addition:
- 2019-07-08T18:28:29Z
- భాష:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.