Life Is Elsewhere (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1930’s through the early 1950’s
- Setting: Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Autobiographical fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, 1930’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Czechoslovakia, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Characters Discussed
Jaromil, a young lyric poet. Jaromil was born into overwhelming, devoted, mother love. This devotion is a boon to his childhood but becomes increasingly odious as he grows older. It is his bad fortune to support this love wonderfully. He is a precious boy, pretty rather than handsome, and he has, for his one talent, the dainty art of lyric poetry. His genius is feminine (no one could understand the masculine and feminine humors quite so vividly as a lyric poet), and he wants, with the furious insecurity of youth, to become a man. He works at this,...
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