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| Original Title: | Život je jinde |
| ISBN: | 0060997028 (ISBN13: 9780060997021) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jaromil |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Médicis Etranger (1973), National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1975) |
Milan Kundera
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 3.95 | 14244 Users | 781 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | Life is Elsewhere |
| Author | : | Milan Kundera |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | July 25th 2000 by Harper Perennial (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature. Literature. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 14244 Users | 781 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Life is Elsewhere
I've been trying to finish this book for four years. I'm giving up on it. Sorry!One of the best from Kundera.
I so want to write a review for this book as it's sooo good. If only I could find a bit of time for writing these days! I hope I will before I start to forget what I want to write.
I can's really say anything bad about this book, it was really great and great all the way through. Not much dialogue (like his other books) but it really doesn't matter. Kundera is a writer that I feel like i should of read a lot more of by now.
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue. Life is Elsewhere is Kundera's parody of youth and adolescence. It ridicules the ego of young artists and makes a folly out of sanctified values of the time: motherhood, poetry, revolution, nationalism. Don't get me wrong: Kundera will never sound that harsh, he puts forward his satire with tenderness
This book shook me to my very bones. I was a young man of about 25 working at a coffee kiosk in Victoria, BC, and reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, when one of my customers suggested Life is Elsewhere as a Kundera book I'd probably like. It got me right in the jugular, and probably was a perfect storm for me. If I had read it a few years earlier or a few years later it may not have had the resonance it did have, and I don't even plan to read it again, because I know a re-read would ruin
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue. Life is Elsewhere is Kundera's parody of youth and adolescence. It ridicules the ego of young artists and makes a folly out of sanctified values of the time: motherhood, poetry, revolution, nationalism. Don't get me wrong: Kundera will never sound that harsh, he puts forward his satire with tenderness
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