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Mar 24, 2014lukasevansherman rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera, who somehow has not won the Nobel Prize, will be on any discerning reader's shortlist of greatest living writers, even if his recent work (the slim novels "Slowness" and "Identity") has been underwhelming. This companion piece to his non-fiction book "Testaments Betrayed" shares its title with a Henry James book and is a compilation of lectures, interviews and and essays, all focused on the novel (duh). Kundera is always incisive, lucid and quotable and shows almost no interest in American writers. It's probably more rewarding if you've read some of his fiction first.