An edition of Valčík na rozloučenou (1976)

La Despedida / The Farewell Party

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An edition of Valčík na rozloučenou (1976)

La Despedida / The Farewell Party

  • 4.1 (7 ratings) ·
  • 21 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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; and unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.

Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly 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 work.

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Publisher
Tusquets
Language
Spanish
Pages
257

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Edition Availability
Cover of: La Despedida / The Farewell Party
La Despedida / The Farewell Party
June 2002, Tusquets
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Il valzer degli addii
Il valzer degli addii
2001, Adelphi
in Italian - 7. ed.
Cover of: Farewell waltz
Farewell waltz
1998, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: La valse aux adieux
La valse aux adieux: roman
1996, Gallimard
in French - Nouv. ed. / revue par l'auteur.
Cover of: The farewell party
The farewell party
1993, Faber, Faber & Faber
in English
Cover of: Abschiedswalzer.
Abschiedswalzer.
February 1, 1989, Carl Hanser
Hardcover in German
Cover of: LA Despedida/the Farewell Party
LA Despedida/the Farewell Party
June 1986, Tusquets Editor
Paperback
Cover of: Farewell Party (King Penguin)
Farewell Party (King Penguin)
January 26, 1984, Penguin Putnam~trade
Cover of: The farewell party
The farewell party
1977, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The farewell party
The farewell party
1976, Knopf distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.

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Library of Congress
PG5039.21.U6 S518 1987

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
257

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Open Library
OL13279338M
Internet Archive
ellibrodelosamor0000kund
ISBN 10
8472232441
ISBN 13
9788472232440
Library Thing
32365
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489272

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