Life Is Elsewhere

  • Author: Milan Kundera
  • Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 10:19:06
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Synopsis

The author initially intended to call this novel 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 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.

Chapters

  • 061 Chapter Seven

    Duration: 01min
  • 062 Chapter Eight

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  • 063 Chapter Nine

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  • 064 Chapter Ten

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  • 065 Chapter Eleven

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  • 066 Chapter Twelve

    Duration: 01min
  • 067 Chapter Thirteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 068 Chapter Fourteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 069 Chapter Fifteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 070 Chapter Sixteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 071 Chapter Seventeen

    Duration: 01min
  • 072 Chapter Eighteen

    Duration: 01min
  • 073 Chapter Nineteen

    Duration: 01min
  • 074 Chapter Twenty

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  • 075 Chapter Twenty-One

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  • 076 Chapter Twenty-Two

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  • 077 Chapter Twenty-Three

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  • 078 Chapter Twenty-Four

    Duration: 01min
  • 079 Chapter Twenty-Five

    Duration: 01min
  • 080 Part Five

    Duration: 14min
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