Life Is Elsewhere
- Author: Milan Kundera
- Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 10:19:06
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
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061 Chapter Seven
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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
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067 Chapter Thirteen
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068 Chapter Fourteen
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069 Chapter Fifteen
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070 Chapter Sixteen
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071 Chapter Seventeen
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072 Chapter Eighteen
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073 Chapter Nineteen
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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
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079 Chapter Twenty-Five
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080 Part Five
Duration: 14min