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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081 Chapter Two
Duration: 14min -
082 Chapter Three
Duration: 12min -
083 Chapter Four
Duration: 18min -
084 Chapter Five
Duration: 16min -
085 Chapter Six
Duration: 14min -
086 Chapter Seven
Duration: 25min -
087 Chapter Eight
Duration: 12min -
088 Chapter Nine
Duration: 19min -
089 Chapter Ten
Duration: 19min -
090 Chapter Eleven
Duration: 15min -
091 Part Six
Duration: 03min -
092 Chapter Two
Duration: 03min -
093 Chapter Three
Duration: 02min -
094 Chapter Four
Duration: 02min -
095 Chapter Five
Duration: 01min -
096 Chapter Six
Duration: 01min -
097 Chapter Seven
Duration: 02min -
098 Chapter Eight
Duration: 02min -
099 Chapter Nine
Duration: 01min -
100 Chapter Ten
Duration: 02min