Farewell Waltz, Milan Kundera
Farewell Waltz, Milan Kundera
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Farewell Waltz
A Novel

Author: Milan Kundera

Narrator: Richmond Hoxie

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/21/2012


Synopsis

""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'UniteSet 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.

About Milan Kundera

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.


Reviews

Goodreads review by فايز غازي on July 09, 2023

- "رقصة الوداع"، واحدة من افضل الروايات التي ستقرأها يوماً! - ميلان كونديرا يستطيع نسج رواية بنسق تصاعدي من دون ان يعتري النص اي ركود او ملل وهو يستطيع ادخال شخصيات جديدة عند منعطفات رئيسية في الرواية بكل سلاسة فلا يشعر القارئ ان هذه الشخصية زائدة او اسقطت من دون معنى، بل على العكس من ذلك تكون الشخصي......more

Goodreads review by Wilma on June 04, 2017

Ik proef de Oost-Europese sfeer in deze roman...de typisch Oost-Europese setting. Het verhaal past in de tijd, toch is het thema universeel...ontrouw met een daaruit voortvloeiende zwangerschap...alle personages/verhalen zijn op ingenieuze wijze met elkaar vervlochten. Milan Kundera heeft een makkel......more

Goodreads review by Violet on July 01, 2021

Kundera's third novel and a kind of limbering up for his golden years. As always there's a male sexual predator (Kundera's alter ego) though, unusually, Kundera gives this philanderer his comeuppance. The entire novel is set in a spa town and in particular a clinic for women finding it difficult to......more