{"product_id":"life-is-elsewhere","title":"Life is Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author intially intended to call this noel, \" 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 scarosanct 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kundera, Milan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41188225253420,"sku":"","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.georgestreetcommunitybookshop.co.uk\/products\/life-is-elsewhere","provider":"George Street Community Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}