by Milan Kundera · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571149032
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«Life is Elsewhere» is the novel by Milan Kundera, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The novel follows Jaromil, a young Czech poet, in an ironic epic of adolescence: his relationship with his mother, who pushes him toward poetry, and his youthful idealism clash with the adult world and the communist revolution. With irony, sacred values such as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and poetry itself are dismantled.
The original Czech title is Život je jinde (1973). This novel was translated from Czech by Peter Kussi and won the Prix Médicis étranger.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary classics, interested in twentieth-century Central European literature.
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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
