{"product_id":"life-is-elsewhere-milan-kundera-9780060997021","title":"Life Is Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in \u003cem\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/em\u003e.\"-- Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera initially intended to call this novel \u003cem\u003eThe Lyrical Age\u003c\/em\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaromil 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0060997028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060997021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.34w x 1.04d","brand":"Milan Kundera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043262755071,"sku":"9780060997021","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_978dd541-735d-4b86-84a1-f7a387bc3e02.jpg?v=1684966156","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-is-elsewhere-milan-kundera-9780060997021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}