Farewell Waltz (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Farewell Waltz 3 weeks ago.

Timothy Gray changed the title of Farewell Waltz 3 weeks ago.

Timothy Gray approved Mitch’s request to change the title of Farewell Waltz 3 weeks ago.

Mitch changed the title of Farewell Waltz 3 weeks ago.

Shelfari edited the description of Farewell Waltz Sunday, August 2 2009.

• "It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness."'Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich Amrican (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an 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 works."Kundera remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of `erotic possibilities.' "'New York Times Book Review"Farewell Waltz shocks. Black humor. Farcical ferocity. Admirably tender portraits of women." 'Le Point (Paris)"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."'L'Unit, (Paris)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Farewell Waltz Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Milan Kundera: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Aaron Asher: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Farewell Waltz Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Autumn has arrived and the trees are turning yellow, red, brown; the small spa town in its pretty valley seems to be surrounded by flames.