Life Is Elsewhere. (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Life Is Elsewhere. Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Life Is Elsewhere. Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Milan Kundera: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Aaron Asher: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Peter Kussi: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Life Is Elsewhere. Thursday, July 16 2009.

• When the poet's mother wondered where the poet had been conceived, there were only three possibilities to consider: a park bench one night, the apartment of a friend of the poet's father one afternoon, a romantic spot outside Prague late one morning.