doc Æ Valčík na rozloučenou ☆ Milan Kundera
Ld with ever increasing speed Klima's beautiful jealous wife; the nurse's eually jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynecologist; a rich American at once Don Juan and saint; and an elderly political prisoner who just before his emigration is holding a f How can a book not grab your attention where the ‘hero’ wears a necklace with a cyanide pill so he can make a conscious choice every day whether or not to live?Kundera writes a farce a sexual farce in five parts and in his typical fashion he transforms it into something ambiguous and much much darker As Jakub drives across the border never to return to his homeland as Kundera you wonder how this seemingly good man’s conscience allowed him to commit a bad act Again we see all these all these choices all these possibilities all these potentials for man And many are dark Kundera is asking if we really know what we are capable ofIn an interview Kundera said “In The Farewell Waltz the uestion is does man deserve to live on this earth?” Written in Czechoslovakia in 1972 following the Soviet crushing of Prague Spring I imagine I could appreciate the sentiment In addition to the story line what makes reading Kundera so worthwhile to me is his incredible insights Nearly the entire book is uote worthy
Milan Kundera ☆ Valčík na rozloučenou book
Valčík na rozloučenouKlima 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 fatherAnd so begins a comedy in which during five madcap days events unfo Milan Kundera is such a misogynistic egotist that it's difficult for me to remember why I liked this book so much until I open it up and start glancing through the pages again First off the plot of this novel is amazing hilarious interesting and totally unconvincing Which is part of Kundera's charm ironically He utilizes these absurd characters that are completely unbelievable puts them in a situation that would never happen in a thousand lifetimes and then these unbelievable events do happen to those unrealistic people amounting to a conclusion that forces you to uestion what we you know about morality life and murder He does this very wellEither way even if you don't like the man himself his writing is very much a part of him the story is still very entertaining