{"product_id":"books-life-is-elsewhere-by-milan-kundera","title":"Life is Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author initially intended to call this novel \u003cem\u003eThe Lyrical Age\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480347402513,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780140064704.jpg?v=1777546395","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-life-is-elsewhere-by-milan-kundera","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}