"Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewÂpoint of the novel’s wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil."
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Testaments Betrayed (1995), p. 7
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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
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