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Set in an oldfashioned central european spa town, farewell waltz follows the lives of eight characters. It was ten oclock, and, as she did each day, olga had just received a large white sheet and a key from ruzena. Farewell waltz by milan kundera poses serious questions with a compelling and blasphemous lightness, which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels the joke, life is elsewhere, the farewell waltz, the book of laughter and forgetting, the unbearable lightness of being, immortality, and the shortstory collection laughable loves all originally in czech.
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Milan kundera, the francoczech novelist, was born in brno and has lived in france, his second homeland, for more than twenty years. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer 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. Well situated in ks aesthetic of polyphonic and playful storytelling, f revolves around several different storylines centered on a fertility clinic in rural czechoslovakia. Another feature which makes kundera so easy to relate to is that he often weaves bits of what we should call easterneuropeanness for want of a better expression into his books.
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