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Life Is Elsewhere

By Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher; Richmond Hoxie

Book information

Publisher
HarperAudio
Year
2012
ISBN
0062215604, 9780062215604
Language
english
Format
ZIP
Filesize
272 MB (285411962 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2021-08-01 05:18:16

Description

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.

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