Milan Kundera - Elárult testamentumok

Kundera's work is a masterpiece of style. Literary essay - in novel form. The individual studies, the nine chapters of the virtual novel, are connected by the heroes who appear again and again and cross each other's paths. Stravinsky and Kafka, in the company of their strange friends, Ansermet and Brod, Hemingway and his biographer, Janáček and his Czech compatriots, Rabelais and his intellectual heirs. Great novelists and musicians of past centuries and modern times.
However, the main, real hero of the volume is the art of the novel itself: the gargantuan spirit, the humor from which it was born, its mysterious affinity with music, its story taking place on three time planes, the aesthetics of the third and so far last age (the modern novel), its existentialist wisdom.
In the light of this "wisdom", Kundera examines and analyzes the great situations and conflicts of our time and culture. He launched moral lawsuits against the art of the century, the art of Céline and Mayakovsky, the passing, disappearing-disappeared time, which makes the self-identity of the "I", the self of today and yesterday, memory as a form of forgetting, shame as an individual uncertain. the basic concept of the era under construction, the indiscretion that is becoming a habit and rule nowadays, which projects the twilight of individualism, the mystical power of the will to die, the spiritual testaments left to us and denied, the betrayed testaments of Europe, art and artists.