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

  • 041 Chapter Eleven

    Duration: 04min
  • 042 Chapter Twelve

    Duration: 04min
  • 043 Chapter Thirteen

    Duration: 03min
  • 044 Chapter Fourteen

    Duration: 03min
  • 045 Chapter Fifteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 046 Chapter Sixteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 047 Chapter Seventeen

    Duration: 05min
  • 048 Chapter Eighteen

    Duration: 11min
  • 049 Chapter Nineteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 050 Chapter Twenty

    Duration: 05min
  • 051 Chapter Twenty-One

    Duration: 03min
  • 052 Chapter Twenty-Two

    Duration: 05min
  • 053 Chapter Twenty-Three

    Duration: 01min
  • 054 Chapter Twenty-Four

    Duration: 03min
  • 055 Chapter Twenty-Five

    Duration: 02min
  • 056 Chapter Twenty-Six

    Duration: 03min
  • 057 Chapter Twenty-Seven

    Duration: 05min
  • 058 Chapter Twenty-Eight

    Duration: 05min
  • 059 Chapter Twenty-Nine

    Duration: 03min
  • 060 Fifth Day

    Duration: 01min
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