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Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

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Kundera 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 sombre farce.

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Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2000

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0060997028

ISBN13:: 9780060997021

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Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

3.96/5 (12761 ratings)

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Kundera 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 sombre farce.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2000

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0060997028

ISBN13:: 9780060997021

kindle Asin:

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