The betrayed commandments

This study is written in the form of a novel: over nine independent parts, the same characters progress and meet: Stravinsky and Kafka with their amazing friend Ansermie and Brood, Hemingway with his biographer, Yanaspek with his small nation, Ravel with his great literary heirs. The art of the novel is the main hero in the book: the humor that it was born from, its hidden relationship with music, its history which runs (like the history of music) in three eras, the aesthetic of its third time (modern novel), its existential wisdom. And in light of /the wisdom of the novel/ the book examines important cases in our era: the moral claims raised against the art of this century from Salinger to Mayakovsky, the time that passes and doubts the current /self/ with the same /self/ that was yesterday's mention as a form of forgetfulness, modesty as an essential concept of an era founded on the individual, the lack of reserve that foretells the disappearance of individuality after it has become a habit and a rule, the mysterious forces of the will to death, the commandments, the betrayed commandments... Milan Kundera was born in Czechoslovakia, settled in France in 1975, and is considered one of the most famous novelists in this art, and he wrote this book in French.