Farewell Waltz

  • Author: Milan Kundera
  • Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 7:16:46
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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

  • 021 Chapter Two

    Duration: 05min
  • 022 Chapter Three

    Duration: 06min
  • 023 Chapter Four

    Duration: 08min
  • 024 Chapter Five

    Duration: 07min
  • 025 Chapter Six

    Duration: 10min
  • 026 Chapter Seven

    Duration: 11min
  • 027 Chapter Eight

    Duration: 08min
  • 028 Chapter Nine

    Duration: 18min
  • 029 Chapter Ten

    Duration: 15min
  • 030 Chapter Eleven

    Duration: 10min
  • 031 Fourth Day

    Duration: 06min
  • 032 Chapter Two

    Duration: 03min
  • 033 Chapter Three

    Duration: 03min
  • 034 Chapter Four

    Duration: 05min
  • 035 Chapter Five

    Duration: 04min
  • 036 Chapter Six

    Duration: 03min
  • 037 Chapter Seven

    Duration: 02min
  • 038 Chapter Eight

    Duration: 02min
  • 039 Chapter Nine

    Duration: 04min
  • 040 Chapter Ten

    Duration: 03min
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