Milan Kundera is one of the most popular writers of our time. His books literally fascinate the reader with the refinement of style, skillful plot construction, and the intensity of feelings in the characters. Each new work of the writer replenishes a number of bestsellers of intellectual prose . The novel "Waltz bye" tells about the contradictory relationship between eight people who meet in a small resort town in Czechoslovakia in the early 1970s. Each of them is involved in a variety of love affairs, which intersect with each other, giving rise to an intricate plot pattern that acquires unexpectedly tragic colors closer to the finale.