Binding: Paperback
Description: " I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." Boston Globe" A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust." Time Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age according to him 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.
Title: Life Is Elsewhere
Author(s): Kundera Milan
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780060997021
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 7/25/2000
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction