Life Is Elsewhere

Life Is Elsewhere

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

Book Description

The author intially intended to call this noel, 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 scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima 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.

Life Is Elsewhere

Life Is Elsewhere,Milan Kundera,Aaron Asher,Harper Perennial,0060997028,Fiction,Fiction - General,Kundera, Milan - Prose & Criticism,Literary,Fiction / Literary

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