Farewell Waltz: Milan Kundera Works Series (2022 Edition)
About This Novel
Milan Kundera's most cherished novel, Five Days, Eight People, is a variation on a black love game, the ultimate questioning about the value of human existence, and an endless exploration of the value of human existence. "Farewell Waltz" is Milan Kundera's important novel masterpiece. It was completed in Bohemia between 1969 and 1970. It won the Italian Best Foreign Literature Award. This work is cleverly conceived and full of black humor, and is recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel takes the Soviet Union's invasion of Prague as the political background. Through the twists and turns of eight characters, including a cheating trumpeter, an American businessman, a doctor, a sanatorium nurse, and a released prisoner, the novel deeply explores many complex and contradictory dilemmas and problems in life at a philosophical level, and provides insight into the lives and moods of Czech intellectuals at a specific historical stage. The work adopts the "montage" technique of the movie, and the psychological description of the characters is meticulous, and sometimes reveals "Kundera-style" irony, revealing a rich tragic atmosphere in the seemingly relaxed atmosphere.
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