Milan Kundera – The Farewell Party – First Edition 1977
£45.00
A first edition, first printing of The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera, published by John Murray, London in 1977. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with bumping to top edge of rear board and bottom edge of front board, very slight handling wear to ivory cloth bound front board, with slight toning to top edge of text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with minor bumping to extremities and browning throughout.
Milan Kundera’s The Farewell Party is a satirical novel set in a Czech spa town, where a tangled web of love, jealousy and political tension unfolds. The story follows Klima, a married musician, entangled with Ruzena, a nurse who claims he fathered her child. As various characters—including a jealous wife, a doctor and a political dissident—interact, the novel explores themes of fate, freedom and moral ambiguity, all with Kundera’s signature irony and philosophical depth.
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A first edition, first printing of The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera, published by John Murray, London in 1977. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with bumping to top edge of rear board and bottom edge of front board, very slight handling wear to ivory cloth bound front board, with slight toning to top edge of text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with minor bumping to extremities and browning throughout.
Milan Kundera’s The Farewell Party is a satirical novel set in a Czech spa town, where a tangled web of love, jealousy and political tension unfolds. The story follows Klima, a married musician, entangled with Ruzena, a nurse who claims he fathered her child. As various characters—including a jealous wife, a doctor and a political dissident—interact, the novel explores themes of fate, freedom and moral ambiguity, all with Kundera’s signature irony and philosophical depth.
