Life is Elsewhere : [with a new preface by the author]

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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 tenderlyerodes 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. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Milan Kundera, 1929-2023

Other Authors

Peter Kussi, 1925-2012

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

306 s. ; 20 cm

Published

New York : Penguin Books, 1986

ISBN

0-14-00-6470-2