Life Is Elsewhere
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Life Is Elsewhere is a novel by Milan Kundera that satirically explores youthful idealism, poetry, and political illusion in a Central European communist context.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Life Is Elsewhere canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Milan Kundera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Prix Médicis étranger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| contains |
essayistic digressions
ⓘ
lyrical passages ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| EnglishTranslationTitle | Life Is Elsewhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
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political novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
mother’s ambition
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poet as political tool ⓘ surveillance and denunciation ⓘ |
| ISBN_EnglishPaperback | 9780140181111 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jaromil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
poetry
ⓘ
political illusion ⓘ youthful idealism ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
ironic
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omniscient narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of communist ideology
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satire of revolutionary romanticism ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Czech ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Život je jinde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Milan Kundera bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalContext |
Stalinist era
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communism ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | poet ⓘ |
| publisherOfEnglishEdition | Alfred A. Knopf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Central Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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cult of the poet ⓘ ideological fanaticism ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ naivety of youth ⓘ relationship between art and politics ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| translatorToEnglish | Peter Kussi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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