Farewell waltz

By:

Kundera, Milan

Contributor(s):

Asher, Aaron [Translator]

Publication details: London: Faber and Faber, 1998.Description: 278p.: pbk.: 19cmISBN:

9780571194711

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.86354 KUN

Summary: Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father. And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima’s beautiful, jealous wife, the nurse’s equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint, and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy. https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571194711-farewell-waltz/

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Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father.

And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima’s beautiful, jealous wife, the nurse’s equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint, and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571194711-farewell-waltz/

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