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"Farewell Waltz" Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: La valse aux adieux
"Farewell Waltz" Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: La valse aux adieux
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★ Milan Kundera's most cherished novel
★ A Variation of a Black Love Game
★ The ultimate question about the value of human existence
"Farewell Waltz" is an important representative novel of Milan Kundera, which was completed in Bohemia between 1969 and 1970 and won the Italian Best Foreign Literature Award. This work is ingeniously conceived and full of black humor, and is recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary literature.
The novel is set against the political backdrop of the Soviet invasion of Prague. Through the twists and turns of the stories of eight characters, including an unfaithful trumpet player, an American businessman, a doctor, a nursing home nurse, and a released prisoner, the novel deeply explores the dilemmas and problems of many complex and contradictory lives at a philosophical level, and provides a perspective on the life and mood of Czech intellectuals at a specific historical stage. The work uses the "montage" technique of film, with meticulous psychological descriptions of the characters, and occasionally reveals "Kundera-style" irony, exuding a strong tragic atmosphere in the seemingly relaxed atmosphere.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Milan Kundera (1929- )
A world-renowned novelist and literary critic. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he has lived in France since 1975. He has written 16 works, including novels such as "The Joke", "Life is Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Immortality", "Slowness", "Identity", "Ignorance", "Celebrating Meaninglessness", short story collection "Laughable Love", essay collection "The Art of the Novel", "The Betrayed Will", "Curtain", "Meeting", and drama "Jacques and His Master". He won the Medici Foreign Novel Prize in 1973, the Jerusalem Literature Prize in 1985, the French Academy Literature Prize in 2001, and the Franz Kafka International Literature Prize in 2020.
