Life is elsewhere /
Published by : Faber and Faber, (London : ) Physical details: 261 p. : 22 cm. ISBN:9780571197774. Year: 2000 Item type: Fiction| Current library | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Paro College Library | FIC KUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online Resource | E17893 | Available | E17893 |
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| FIC KUN The book of laughter and forgetting / | FIC KUN The book of laughter and forgetting / | FIC KUN The book of laughter and forgetting / | FIC KUN Life is elsewhere / | FIC KUN Immortality / | FIC KUN Ignorance : | FIC KUN Laughable loves / |
The author intially intended to call this noel, 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 scarosanct 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.
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