出版社: Harper Perennial
副标题: A Novel
原作名: Valčík na rozloučenou
译者: Aaron Asher
出版年: 1998-4-21
页数: 288
定价: USD 12.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060997007
内容简介 · · · · · ·
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.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 deprived us even of the right to tragedy.
Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's works.
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The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent nove...
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, for more than twenty years.
He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, The Farewell Party, The Books of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves — all originally written in Czech.
Like Slowness, his two earlier nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
Biography
For someone whom the world regards as a serious intellectual, Milan Kundera has a brilliantly twisted sense of humor. His novels depict a world of awkward orgies and disastrous pool parties, mad scientists and self-pitying poets who contract pneumonia out of spite. While Kundera's works tackle profound issues of human identity, they also playfully juggle ambiguities, ironies and paradoxes. "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question," he said in a 1980 interview with Philip Roth. "There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovkia in 1929. Like many young Czechs who had come of age during World War II and the German occupation, Kundera was attracted to Marxist philosophy, which seemed to promise a new freedom and peace. The first literary works he produced (three volumes of poetry and a play, The Owners of the Keys) were essentially Communist propaganda, though they didn't always conform to the tenets of socialist realism approved by the state. His resistance to the official restrictions on literature helped lead to his involvement with the "Prague Spring," the brief-lived reform movement toward "socialism with a human face."
During the '60s, Kundera began writing short stories, collected as Laughable Loves, which he would later identify as the beginning of his mature work. In several of them, jokes that start out as innocent pranks evolve into catastrophes for both perpetrator and victim -- they are deeds that, like the Czech version of Communism, have escaped the control of their creators. Kundera's first novel, The Joke, concerns a young man who is brought up on political charges after sending a teasing postcard to his girlfriend ("Optimism is the opium of the people!").
The Joke was published to wide acclaim shortly before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Following the invasion, Kundera was ousted from his film-studies teaching job, his books were pulled from libraries and bookstores, and he was forbidden to publish new work. He went on writing, however, and his novels Life Is Elsewhere and The Farewell Party were published outside his native country. Farcical and bleak, the novels developed what would become a recurring theme for Kundera, in which commitment to an abstract moral principle paves the way for corruption and evil.
In 1975, Kundera fled Czechoslovakia and settled in France, where he eventually became a citizen. His first book produced in exile, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, remains one of his most celebrated works, weaving together autobiographical reflections with a series of connected fictions. John Updike, writing in the New York Times, called it "brilliant and original, written with a purity and wit that invite us directly in; it is also strange, with a strangeness that locks us out." His next novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, also drew high praise, and the 1988 film version of The Unbearable Lightness of Being starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche turned Kundera into something of a celebrity.
Despite (or perhaps because of) the political pressures that shaped his early life and works, Kundera has long insisted that the novel should be a work of art, not a political or ideological statement. By the '90s, Kundera had started to write his novels in French; he is now sometimes tagged a "Franco-Czech" author. His works are often described as "novels of ideas," but he resists the term "philosophical novel." As he said in an interview with Lois Oppenheim, "There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize."
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0 有用 超濕貓咪 2023-09-24 02:29:19 荷兰
现在在欧洲才真的懂了米兰昆德拉写作的历史背景 一切都如此make sense. 刻奇 东欧communism时期 需要对死亡的掌控 the greatest act of one’s life 东欧的温泉和spa 😂 男人的心理在被男人解析之后每个男人都非常让人下头
1 有用 Doyle Frenger 2013-01-09 11:33:42
I read it as a great comical/absurd play. It is a plot entwined with characters all bearing ambitions and such selfishness towards life and love thus who are at most of the time unsatisfied with the s... I read it as a great comical/absurd play. It is a plot entwined with characters all bearing ambitions and such selfishness towards life and love thus who are at most of the time unsatisfied with the surroundings. But to me its setting is too distant to evoke an echoing. (展开)
0 有用 Faust~Change 2010-02-11 17:30:25
Another classic
0 有用 Ainsley Hayes 2019-01-19 22:35:22
喜欢!
0 有用 Eveny 2010-04-07 00:41:23
3.5
0 有用 Raisman 2024-02-19 19:44:39 广东
昆神请收下小人的膝盖…
0 有用 超濕貓咪 2023-09-24 02:29:19 荷兰
现在在欧洲才真的懂了米兰昆德拉写作的历史背景 一切都如此make sense. 刻奇 东欧communism时期 需要对死亡的掌控 the greatest act of one’s life 东欧的温泉和spa 😂 男人的心理在被男人解析之后每个男人都非常让人下头
0 有用 Max 2023-09-01 18:17:09 重庆
1.即使人群嚷嚷,我们其实都生活在一个人的世界里。 2.一切都那么可笑,并非我们可以掌控
0 有用 Champloo. 2023-01-03 07:41:36 加拿大
英译文笔太符合喜好了。内容出乎意料的丰富,有种推理小说的交织感。每个人在现实上都加了一层自己的意志,并抓着牢牢不放,哪怕让自己痛苦万分。最常出现的形容就是absentminded,屈服于自己给自己设定的剧本,而无法活在自己真实所在的时间和空间。相较下,Ruzena倒是一直活在别人的剧本的夹缝中。最有共鸣的是Jacob,乍一眼看好像是相对平静的人物,但内心充满诡辩,可能以前的经历让他把周围的一切化为... 英译文笔太符合喜好了。内容出乎意料的丰富,有种推理小说的交织感。每个人在现实上都加了一层自己的意志,并抓着牢牢不放,哪怕让自己痛苦万分。最常出现的形容就是absentminded,屈服于自己给自己设定的剧本,而无法活在自己真实所在的时间和空间。相较下,Ruzena倒是一直活在别人的剧本的夹缝中。最有共鸣的是Jacob,乍一眼看好像是相对平静的人物,但内心充满诡辩,可能以前的经历让他把周围的一切化为自己故事的一部分,试炼也好救赎也好,都不再是独立的存在。对比罪与罚主人公,Jacob只受自己的约束。曾经觉得这样的做法可以应对不断变化的世界,但好像一不小心就会变得什么也看不见。 (展开)
0 有用 naufhandgelenk 2022-09-09 17:24:04 江苏
最激动人心的时刻就是Jacub救狗和给Ruzena下药的时候,其他情节真是看得人视觉疲劳、脖子发僵...