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

  • 061 Chapter Two

    Duration: 01min
  • 062 Chapter Three

    Duration: 04min
  • 063 Chapter Four

    Duration: 04min
  • 064 Chapter Five

    Duration: 01min
  • 065 Chapter Six

    Duration: 07min
  • 066 Chapter Seven

    Duration: 02min
  • 067 Chapter Eight

    Duration: 01min
  • 068 Chapter Nine

    Duration: 01min
  • 069 Chapter Ten

    Duration: 01min
  • 070 Chapter Eleven

    Duration: 03min
  • 071 Chapter Twelve

    Duration: 01min
  • 072 Chapter Thirteen

    Duration: 03min
  • 073 Chapter Fourteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 074 Chapter Fifteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 075 Chapter Sixteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 076 Chapter Seventeen

    Duration: 05min
  • 077 Chapter Eighteen

    Duration: 07min
  • 078 Chapter Nineteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 079 Chapter Twenty

    Duration: 03min
  • 080 Chapter Twenty-One

    Duration: 12min
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