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Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 14244 Users | 781 Reviews

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Title	:	Life is Elsewhere
Author	:	Milan Kundera
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	July 25th 2000 by Harper Perennial (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature. Literature. Novels

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Kundera 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 sombre farce.

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Original Title:	Život je jinde
ISBN:	0060997028 (ISBN13: 9780060997021)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jaromil
Literary Awards:	Prix Médicis Etranger (1973), National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1975)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 14244 Users | 781 Reviews

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I can's really say anything bad about this book, it was really great and great all the way through. Not much dialogue (like his other books) but it really doesn't matter. Kundera is a writer that I feel like i should of read a lot more of by now.

I don't know what it is exactly that makes me want to write my first ever review on Goodreads after reading this novel, and yet, after reading it, I know it is impossible to simply let it go. So here goes...Every time I pick up a Kundera novel I'm certain that I am either going to love or hate the novel. This one, within the first few pages, convinced me that I was going to hate it. After forty pages I despised it. The lead character is a self-centered sorry excuse of a human being, who has no

The same girl who turned me on to the Calvino book loaned me this one. And though she regularly thwarted my amorous ambitions, I am forever grateful. For I think about this book on a daily basis: it tells the story of a boy named Jamoril, born to be a great poet. However, swept up in the pressures of family and the politics of the time, he becomes a hack instead. Every day, we all must make this choice, between living to our fullest potential or getting bogged down in the details of the small

This year is the fiftieth since Kundera finished writing Life is Elsewhere (publication came a few years later). Although the plot is connected to an era of Czech history, I couldnt help but impose my own experiences and contemporary events to my reading of it. That is the mark of great literature; it steps outside of its obvious confines as it emerges to illuminate universal and eternal questions. Dont be fooled by the simple prose of this hypnotizing novel, its observations are percipient in

One of the best from Kundera.

This book hurts me. I feel like Kundera found my weaknesses built a straw man out of them and published a telling description for all the world to see. I don't want to be Jaromil but I fear I too frequently am. This is literature, when an author can make us see our lesser selves.

One of his less known books. Interesting also by his recent problem of being accused of being a police informant in his youth. It is complicated. People who never lived under a totalitarian regime do not understand the complexity.But the poet in this book betrays his friends, too, under pressure. Well written look in the past. I read the book as a samizdat- typed on shewets of paper, passed between friends, in danger of getting into great trouble if found. You can read it in the comfort of