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Life is Elsewhere

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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 to his love bed, and to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent , 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.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: July 25, 2000

ISBN: 0060997028

ISBN 13: 9780060997021

Life is Elsewhere

4/5 ( ratings)

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 to his love bed, and to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent , 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.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: July 25, 2000

ISBN: 0060997028

ISBN 13: 9780060997021

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