| Title : | Farewell Waltz | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Milan Kundera, Author ; Aaron Asher, Translator | | Publisher: | London : Faber and Faber | | Publication Date: | 1998 | | Pagination: | 282 p. | | Size: | 19.7 cm. | | Price: | $19.80 | | General note: | 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. | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | [LCSH]Novel
| | Curricular : | BALA/MTEIL | | Record link: | http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=27744 |
Farewell Waltz [printed text] / Milan Kundera, Author ; Aaron Asher, Translator . - London : Faber and Faber, 1998 . - 282 p. ; 19.7 cm. $19.80 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. Languages : English ( eng) |
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