Description: Milan Kundera, LIFE IS ELSEWHERE, Stated First US Edition, (1974), Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 8vo, Dust jacket price unclipped, cream linen boards, 289 Pages Dust jacket will ship with a new, clear, removable Brodart cover. Condition: Very Good Hardback Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardback book has some toning along top edge. Dust jacket has some handling: spine chipping, a small closed tear at top, a couple corner creases on flap, inside paper toning along top. “Life Is Elsewhere” is Kundera’s second novel. Similar to his first novel “The Joke”, “Life Is Elsewhere” it is set in Communist Czechoslovakia shortly after World War II. This is significant. Because if the main character Jaromil lived in Britain, for instance, “poetical”ambitions wouldn’t be so paradoxical. But in a totalitarian state, how does a romantic poet (a bad one at that) make a living? To answer this, Kundera’s poet Jaromil creates a dream poet counterpart. It is helpful at first but Jaromil is terribly flawed and he messes up terribly. If you have not read Kundera before I highly recommend “The Joke” first. He communicated so well life under totalitarianism. In addition, I would recommend reading Vaclav Havel “Living In Truth”. He and Kundera are closely tied to the Prague Spring 1968. “Living in Truth” magnifies what Kundera writes in “The Joke”, “Life Elsewhere” and “Laughter and Forgetting”. SHIPPING: USPS Media Mail with Tracking TERMS OF SALE: I accept returns within 30 days of buyer receiving the book. Buyer is asked to pay for return shipping. Thank you for shopping!
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: Seattle, Washington
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, First Printing
Region: North America
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature, Modern
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1974
