Summary
Milan Kundera: Life is Elsewhere
A voice-over novel whose center is Jaromil, a sensitive young man, an unsuspecting poetic genius, whose emotional and sexual maturation is marked, on the one hand, by the obsessive love of his possessive mother, and on the other, by his first love and sexual experiences, which he will weave almost smugly into his verses. Such an intimate weave of Kundera will serve as a suitable framework for a more universal questioning of the relationship between poetry and revolution, words and actions, verses and ideas. Being at the same time a parody and a satire of a time, the novel seems like a kind of meditation on the essential problems of man and his existence.
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