Farewell Waltz
- Author: Milan Kundera
- Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 7:16:46
Synopsis
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; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer 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 works.
Chapters
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001 Farewell Waltz
Duration: 02min -
002 Chapter Two
Duration: 02min -
003 Chapter Three
Duration: 02min -
004 Chapter Four
Duration: 02min -
005 Chapter Five
Duration: 05min -
006 Chapter Six
Duration: 01min -
007 Chapter Seven
Duration: 04min -
008 Chapter Eight
Duration: 03min -
009 Chapter Nine
Duration: 06min -
010 Second Day
Duration: 06min -
011 Chapter Two
Duration: 03min -
012 Chapter Three
Duration: 03min -
013 Chapter Four
Duration: 03min -
014 Chapter Five
Duration: 05min -
015 Chapter Six
Duration: 08min -
016 Chapter Seven
Duration: 06min -
017 Chapter Eight
Duration: 13min -
018 Chapter Nine
Duration: 14min -
019 Chapter Ten
Duration: 04min -
020 Third Day
Duration: 07min