Life Is Elsewhere Paperback - 2000
by Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher
Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry, in a "remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man" ("Newsweek").
From the rear cover
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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- Title Life Is Elsewhere
- Author Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2000-07-25
- ISBN 9780060997021 / 0060997028
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.34 x 1.04 in (20.62 x 13.56 x 2.64 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99086224
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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