Testaments Betrayed · an Essay in Nine Parts by Kundera, Milan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

PART ONE. The Day Panurge No Longer Makes People Laugh

The Invention of Humor The Realm Where Moral Judgment Is Suspended Profanation The Well of the Past Coexistence of Various Historical Periods Within a Novel The History of the Novel as Revenge on History Itself Improvisation and Composition In the Shadow of Great Principles The Clash of Three Eras The European Novel The Day Panurge No Longer Makes People Laugh

PART TWO. The Castrating Shadow of Saint Garta

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PART THREE. Improvisation in Homage to Stravinsky

The Call of the Past The Two Halves History as a Landscape Emerging from the Mists The Tribunal of the Feelings What Is Superficial and What Is Profound? Music and Noise Melody Modernism's Great Works as Rehabilitation of the First Half The Third (or Overtime) Period Playful Transcription Playful Transcription According to Kafka Heartlessness Masked by a Style Overflowing with Feeling A Little Boy in Ecstasy Delight and Ecstasy Evil's Scandalous Beauty Emigration Arithmetic Stravinsky's Home

PART FOUR. A Sentence

Translations Metaphor Metaphor as Phenomenological Definition Observation on Systematic Synonym izing Richness of Vocabulary A General Remark on the Problem of Authority Repetition The Semantic Meaning of Repetition Another Remark on the Necessity of Preserving Repetitions The Melodic Importance of Repetition Repetition Skill Digression: An Example of the Beauty of Repetition Breath Typographical Appearance And Finally, a Remark on Type, Large and Small FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SENTENCE

PART FIVE. A la Recherche du Present Perdu

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PART SIX. Works and Spiders

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PART SEVEN. The Unloved Child of the Family

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PART EIGHT. Paths in the Fog

What Is Irony? K.'s Curious Behavior During His Arrest The Second Trial of Josef K. Inducing Guilt For How Long Can a Man Be Considered Identical to Himself? Conspiracy of Details Change of Opinion as Adjustment to the Spirit of the Time Windows Tribunal and Trial The Trial Against the Century Those with No Sense of Guilt Are Dancing Paths in the Fog

PART NINE. You're Not in Your Own House Here, My Dear Fellow

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Milan Kundera