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Life Is Elsewhere by Kundera, Milan, Asher, Aaron is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Life Is Elsewhere about?
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. <div class="bookitem
Who reads Life Is Elsewhere?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kundera, Milan, Asher, Aaron
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Published
- 1973
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060997021
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (8,998 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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