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Availability:In StockContributor:Milan KunderaPublish date:1998-04-21Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060997007ISBN-10:60997001UPC:9780060997007Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Czech RepublicSize:8.03 x 5.29 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCRSPA78NT

"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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060997007ISBN-10:60997001UPC:9780060997007Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Czech RepublicSize:8.03 x 5.29 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCRSPA78NT
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Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves--all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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