translated kundera (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. 1st Harper Colophon Ed. 1985, 11th Print.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

A first edition, first printing softcover in fine condition, with only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, crisp, and unmarked, and the book remains square and well-preserved.