Milan kundera, first edition abebooks passion for books. Set in czechoslovakia before, during and after the second world war, life is elsewhere is a satirical portrait of the fictional poet jaromil, a young and very naive idealist who becomes involved in political scandals. Milan kundera project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Milan kundera seems to transcend writing i cant explain it or figure out how he did it, but the experience of reading this book made me shake and tremble and wonder if there was magic being spilled onto the pages. Milan kundera is a czech and french writer of czech origin who has lived in exile in france since 1975, where he became a naturalized french citizen in 1981. Francis bacon 19091992 milan kundera caroline le gallic. Lauteur avait tout dabord pense intituler ce roman lage lyrique. The setting for life is elsewhere is czechoslovakia before, during, and after the second world war, and tells the story of jaromil, a character who dedicates his life to poetry.
He is best known for the unbearable lightness of being, the book of laughter and forgetting, and the joke. O n the first page of milan kunderas new novel published in france last year when its author was 85 a man is walking down a parisian street in. Zivot je jinde is a czechlanguage novel by milan kundera finished in 1969. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Kundera initially intended to call this novel the lyrical age. Toute lactualit, les nouveauts littraires en littratures europennes rares, les.
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