Farewell Waltz Paperback - 1998
by Milan Kundera
Published simultaneously with "Identity", his new novel, "Farewell Waltz" is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera's most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel--a dark farce of sex, murder, and motherhood.
From the rear cover
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; and unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's work.
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- Title Farewell Waltz
- Author Milan Kundera
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 1998-04-21
- ISBN 9780060997007 / 0060997001
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.29 x 0.68 in (20.40 x 13.44 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Library of Congress subjects Satire, Health resorts - Europe, Central
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97031870
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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