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Title	:	Farewell Waltz
Author	:	Milan Kundera
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1998 by Faber and Faber (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature. Novels. Literature

Farewell Waltz

Milan Kundera

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 12123 Users | 732 Reviews

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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 in which, during five madcap days, events unfold with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife; the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynecologist; 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.

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Original Title:	Valčík na rozloučenou
ISBN:	0571194710 (ISBN13: 9780571194711)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Klima, Ruzena, Skreta, Jakub, Kalima

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Ratings: 3.86 From 12123 Users | 732 Reviews

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Reading Kundera is a bit like watching Mad Men. You find nearly all of the characters in The Farewell Party and Mad Men repellent and highly limited (which makes you as a reader/watcher feel so clever) and yet they are so v. v. compelling, often their looks are what defines their behavior, how they are treated and what they can and can't do. Worlds built on artifice. What gives? Kundera and Weiner are masterful at using sexual politics and blind ambition to critique what is horribly wrong within

3.5 stars really. A bit on the slight side for Kundera. You could say that Farewell Waltz is the author's first attempt at engaging with the ideas he so masterfully interrogates in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Well worth a read if you are a fan of that book, but definitely not if not. This one, though, seems to be a bit of a trifle at first, but accumulates a paradoxically post-modern "depth" as the characters' self-understandings are revealed to be almost entirely illusory, and what

Milan Kundera is such a misogynistic egotist, that it's difficult for me to remember why I liked this book so much, until I open it up and start glancing through the pages again. First off, the plot of this novel is amazing, hilarious, interesting, and totally unconvincing. Which is part of Kundera's charm, ironically. He utilizes these absurd characters, that are completely unbelievable, puts them in a situation that would never happen in a thousand lifetimes, and then these unbelievable events

"The Farewell Party" (more accurately, "The Farewell Waltz") is the best of Kundera's novels so far that I'm going through on a two-decade-later reread. Well situated in K's aesthetic of polyphonic and playful storytelling, "F" revolves around several different storylines centered on a fertility clinic in rural Czechoslovakia. There's a pregnant nurse, the various potential fathers, one of whom is a jazz trumpeter, an eclectic doctor at the clinic who, discovering that many women patients are

Hard as it may be to believe, I've never actually gotten around to reading Kundera's fiction before. If this book is representative, though, I really should have. I loved how intricate Kundera sets up the relationships among the characters while still developing them individually. Also, I'm a sucker for anyone who can have the kind of insight on human character that Kundera does. It is both tender and piercing at the same time. Humans are nothing but folly, but we have to take that seriously

Like other works of Kundera, Farewell Waltz has the same especial writing style of Kundera with many rich dialogues between the characters concerning different moral concepts like love, abortion, jealousy, betrayal, murder, political and religious beliefs,... and although most of the times (I think) a fiction reader is looking for in fact "fiction" itself, I think Kundera's opinions make this book a didactic novel which is written in an artistic way that the reader whether he/she agrees with him

Wow. Okay. This book was compelling, and like nothing I ever expected. That plot twist and its aftermath really got to me. There are so many unanswered questions here. Maybe Ill write a better review when I get a more clear idea of what I just read.