Life Is Elsewhere,9780060997021

Life Is Elsewhere

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780060997021
ISBN10: 0060997028
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-23
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

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 tenderly erodes 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.

Table of Contents

The Poet is Born
1(80)
Xavier
81(40)
The Poet Masturbates
121(92)
The Poet Runs
213(36)
The Poet Is Jealous
249(110)
The Man in His Forties
359(30)
The Poet Dies
389(32)
Author's Note 421

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