false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370398m/50605.jpg 50605 46 "It is hard to imagine anything more chilling & profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness."--Elizabeth Pochoda In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse & her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint & Don Juan); a popular trumpeter & his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country & his young woman ward. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted & 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), & 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 & intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery & the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's works. "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 Point, Paris "After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an example of virtuosity & a descent into the human soul."--L'Unit, Paris 3424607 1973 Farewell Waltz total:1201|5:269|4:500|3:329|2:88|1:15| 1201 4523 1641 61 3 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 06:25:54 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 17:36:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 09:35:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 08:58:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 14:50:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 15:00:57 -0700 2009
First off, the plot of this novel is amazing, hilarious, interesting, and totally unconvincing. Which is part o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Tue May 19 04:28:43 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 04:32:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Dec 22 01:35:37 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 01:36:29 -0800 2008 النجمة الواحدة دي للترجمة مش للرواية]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 14 12:30:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 07:50:20 -0700 2009 "In our century, man hunt has became, in fact, hunt on those preferred ones, on those who read books or own a dog."

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I have a translation from 1976, entitled "Farewell Party" rather than "Farewell Waltz" as some other translations are titled. "Pa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 02 01:28:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 01:29:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 07:55:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 07:57:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 29 20:23:16 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 20:23:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 24 04:04:10 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 04:05:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 09:43:10 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 09:44:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 13 17:54:51 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 17:57:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 17 16:00:02 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 04 11:44:26 -0800 2008 The story's structure is based on m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 21:15:36 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 19:41:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 19:43:22 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 06:50:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 02 22:39:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 22:39:52 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50605