Originally written in Czech under title Valčík na rozloučenou; translated into French under title La valse aux adieux.
This translation originally published: New York : Knopf, 1976.
This paperback edition first published in 1993 by Faber and Faber.

Originally published in Czech; this book is a second, entirely different translation from the French Livre du rire et de l'oubli.