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Life Is Elsewhere

✍ Scribed by Kundera, Milan

Book ID: 109113729
Year: 1973
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0060997028

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✦ Synopsis

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

Review

"Tender and unsparing...Life Is Elsewhere is a remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man." -- -- Newsweek __

Language Notes

_Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French, Czech _

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