Het leven is elders

Autor*innen

• Milan Kundera
• Jana Beranová

Parameter

• 347 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Bücher
• Klassiker
• Philosophisches Thema
• Tschechische Literatur

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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 hima 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.

• Sprache: Niederländisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Einband: Paperback