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

  • 021 Chapter Nine

    Duration: 01min
  • 022 Chapter Ten

    Duration: 03min
  • 023 Chapter Eleven

    Duration: 03min
  • 024 Chapter Twelve

    Duration: 04min
  • 025 Chapter Thirteen

    Duration: 51s
  • 026 Chapter Fourteen

    Duration: 05min
  • 027 Part Three

    Duration: 02min
  • 028 Chapter Two

    Duration: 02min
  • 029 Chapter Three

    Duration: 03min
  • 030 Chapter Four

    Duration: 03min
  • 031 Chapter Five

    Duration: 05min
  • 032 Chapter Six

    Duration: 05min
  • 033 Chapter Seven

    Duration: 01min
  • 034 Chapter Eight

    Duration: 03min
  • 035 Chapter Nine

    Duration: 02min
  • 036 Chapter Ten

    Duration: 03min
  • 037 Chapter Eleven

    Duration: 01min
  • 038 Chapter Twelve

    Duration: 01min
  • 039 Chapter Thirteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 040 Chapter Fourteen

    Duration: 03min
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