The third volume of essays, this time devoted to Franz Kafka, contains the essays Castrating the Shadow of Saint Garth and The Translation of a Sentence (from Les testaments trahis /The Betrayed Testaments/, Gallimard 1993) and "as a supplement and epilogue" The Art of Fidelity and The Border of the Improbable is No Longer Guarded.
On the bookmark you will read: "Kafkaologists have made Kafka 'the patron saint of neurotics, gloomers and malaise, the patron saint of sophisticated poseurs, preciosities and hysterics'. 'It was only thanks to Kafka that I understood that it was possible to write differently,' Gabriel García Márquez once told Kundera. To 'write differently' is not to be afraid to go beyond the improbable. Not in order to escape the real world (in the manner of the Romantics), but in order to grasp it better and more deeply."
Czech edition