Testaments Betrayed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Essays; literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Literature, Novelists, Totalitarianism, Comedy
In “Improvisation in Homage to Stravinsky,” part 3 of his nine-part Testaments Betrayed, Milan Kundera writes about Igor Stravinsky’s émigré status: “having understood that no country could replace it [his homeland], he finds his only homeland in music; this is not just a nice lyrical conceit of mine, I think it in an absolutely concrete way.” Kundera’s situation is similar to that of Stravinsky and to those of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov, about whom Kundera also writes. Kundera, the most famous Czech writer, left Czechoslovakia in 1975 to live in Paris. He...
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