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Life Is Elsewhere (Czech: Život je jinde) is a Czech-language novel by Milan Kundera finished in 1969. It was first published in French in 1973 (La vie est ailleurs).
Jan 1, 2001 · Life is Elsewhere is Kundera's parody of youth and adolescence. It ridicules the ego of young artists and makes a folly out of sanctified values of the time: motherhood, poetry, revolution, nationalism.
Originally called The Lyrical Age, Milan Kundera’s literary novel Life is Elsewhere (1973) explores themes of love, youth, and revolution through the eyes of a rebellious young poet. The book won a prestigious French literary award in 1973, and it received a National Book Award nomination in 1975.
Jul 25, 2000 · Life Is Elsewhere. Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher. Harper Collins, Jul 25, 2000 - Fiction - 432 pages. The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age.
Jul 25, 2000 · Life is Elsewhere is about the life of a young poet named Jaromil. The viewpoint is erected at his demise, as the writer tells us. The poet and his mother's relationship are one of the main subjects in this book.
It tells the story of a young Communist whose life is ruined because of a minor indiscretion: writing a postcard to his girlfriend in which he mocks her political...
Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood,...
