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ID: 247832
Title: Life Is Elsewhere
Author: Aaron Asher, Milan Kundera
Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:13:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-21-12
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
''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
Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to him, 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 somber farce.
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