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100 1 $aKundera, Milan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032174
240 10 $aValčík na rozloučenou.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97093920
245 10 $aFarewell waltz :$ba novel /$cMilan Kundera ; translated from the French by Aaron Asher.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c1998.
263 $a9805
300 $a278 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally written in Czech under title Valčík na rozloučenou; translated into French under title La valse aux adieux.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aPerhaps 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.
520 8 $aWritten 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.
700 1 $aAsher, Aaron.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96018152
852 00 $bglx$hPG5039.21.U6$iV313 1998