Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel - winner of the Prix Médicis - by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Milan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
"Tender and unsparing..."Life Is Elsewhere is a remarkable portrait
of an artist as a young man."--"Newsweek"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
"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it
upon all who care about literature in our difficult era". -- Boston
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