Life is Elsewhere
Life is Elsewhere
paperback
Published:
4 September, 2000
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Description
Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel - winner of the Prix Médicis - by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
'An artist, clearly one of the greatest to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie
'Kundera's achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.' Ian McEwan
Young Jaromil knows he is special; in fact, he is a poet bestowed with literary genius, heir to Rimbaud. He knows this because his adoring mother told him so.
Adult Jaromil, still revelling in these truths, draws on his talents to find romance whilst making his mark on the world through both his poetry and advancing the Communist revolution.
Son, Poet, Lover. In which of these roles does Jaromil's true existence lie?
A blazingly satirical reflection on the 'lyrical age' of youthful innocence, this ironic epic of adolescence showcases Kundera's savage yet tender wit at its finest.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571197774 |
| ISBN10 | 0571197779 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 240 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Re-issue |
Media Reviews
Tender and unsparing... Life Is Elsewhere is a remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man. -- Newsweek 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
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Author's Bio
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.