Farewell Waltz
- 作者:Milan Kundera
- 出版社:Faber and Faber Ltd
- 出版日期:1998-08-03
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0571194710
- ISBN13:9780571194711
- 裝訂:平裝 / 288頁 / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
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.