by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060997021
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«Life Is Elsewhere» is the novel by Milan Kundera translated from the French by Aaron Asher (Harper Perennial, paperback, 432 pages, in English).
The novel follows Jaromil, a young poet in communist Czechoslovakia, caught between his mother, love, and revolution. Kundera builds an ironic epic of adolescence that erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and poetry.
Originally published in Czech in 1973 as «Život je jinde», the novel won the Prix Médicis étranger.
For readers of European literary fiction interested in political satire and the ironic exploration of youth and artistic creation.
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
