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Farewell Waltz
Název | ISBN | Sklad | Farewell Waltz | 9780571194711 | 2 |
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Author | Publisher | Language | Pages | Published | Width | Height | Milan Kundera | Faber & Faber | EN | 288 | 1998 | 12,50 cm | 19,60 cm |
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Váha | 0.231kg |
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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.