Farewell Waltz

A Novel

by Milan Kundera

On Sale: 04/21/1998

Farewell Waltz

A Novel

by Milan Kundera

On Sale: 04/21/1998

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About the Book

"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."L'Unite

Set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, 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.

In this dark farce of a novel, 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 an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. It is perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels.

Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, the 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 translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects Kundera's own tone and intentions, and offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's works.

Critical Praise

"Kundera remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of 'erotic possibilities.'" — New York Times Book Review

"Farewell Waltz shocks. Black humor. Farcical ferocity. Admirably tender portraits of women." — Le Pointe (Paris)

"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul." — L'Unite

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780060997007
  • ISBN 10: 0060997001
  • Imprint: Harper Perennial
  • On Sale: 04/21/1998
  • Pages: 288
  • List Price:21.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / Small Town & Rural
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / World Literature / Czech Republic

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