Life Is Elsewhere
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"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." — Boston Globe
"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust."— Time
Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to him, 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.
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Milan Kundera
Estimated Reading Time: 12 hrs. 14 min.Page Number: 432Publication Date: 25 July 2000First Publication Date: March 2014Publisher: Harper PerennialISBN: 9780060997021Country: United States of AmericaLanguage: İngilizce
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About the Author
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Milan Kundera is a writer of Czech-French origin. Kundera was born on April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He wrote 15 books, received numerous awards, and in addition to his writing career, he worked professionally in music and cinema for many years. He lives in Paris with his wife.
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He was born in 1929 as the second child of the middle-class Kundera family. His father, Ludvik Kundera (1891-1971), was a student of the famous musicologist and pianist Leoš Janaček, who was the director of the Brno Music Academy between 1948 and 1961. He took his first piano lessons from his father and in the following years he also studied musicology.
After completing his high school education in Brünn in 1948, he studied literature and aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Charles University. After two semesters, he transferred to the Film Academy and wrote his first articles on directing, but later had to stop his studies due to political pressure.
II. He became a member of the Communist Party at the end of World War II. However, he was expelled from the party in February 1948. In 1950, another Czech writer Jan Trefulka was suspended from the Communist Party for his activities against it. Trefulka wrote about the events of those days in Pršelo jim štěstí in 1962. He described it in his novel (The Happiness Rising from Them). Kundera must have seen what happened to him in those days as a joke, so he named his book Žert (Joke), in which he tells about what happened to him during the process of being expelled from the party. Milan Kundera, who re-entered the Communist Party in 1956, was expelled from the party for the second time in 1976, along with famous writers and artists such as Vaclav Havel.
After the Russian invasion in 1968, Kundera, who was dismissed from his post at the Prague Academy of Music and Arts, could not stand the political pressures and immigrated to France and became a French citizen in 1981. "Your Laugh and Your Forget", which he wrote in 1979. After the publication of his book, the Czechoslovak government stripped Kundera of his citizenship.
He shared the Commonwealth Award, which was received by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1980, with Tennessee Williams in 1981. His best-known novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, was adapted into a movie by Philip Kaufman in 1988. Kundera, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Michigan in 1983, was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985.
Described as the most successful intellectual novelist of our age and the last of the existentialists, Kundera's last book, A Meeting, was published in 2009 and translated into Turkish in 2010.
He passed away at his home in Paris on July 11, 2023, after a long illness.
Awards
Medicis Award (Life Is Elsewhere)
Mondello Award (Jacques and His Master)
Commonwealth Prize
Europa Literatura Award
Jerusalem Prize
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