9780060997021
Life Is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher
ISBN 13: 9780060997021
Publisher: Perennial
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
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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 tenderlyerodes 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.
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"It seems to me that the novel is only half-successful because it looks too much as if Kundera is shooting a clumsy fish in a very small barrel. And it is not a very convincing rebuttal of the heroics of Byron and Shelley or the poetic mind in general. It is a particularizing of an isolated case of perversity--metrical feet shod with jackboots....It is, among other things, a novel of tremendous elasticity, stretching in all directions as it moves forward; it is also very funny."
Paul Theroux, New York Times Book Review, 7/28/74
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