num_pages: 349
description:  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.
language: Persian
title: زندگی جای دیگری است
titlecomplete: زندگی جای دیگری است
characters: Jaromil
genres: Classics, Roman, Philosophy, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 18655
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation