Life Is Elsewhere
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Life Is Elsewhere is a Czech
-language novel by Milan Kundera
published in 1973.
The setting for Life Is Elsewhere is Czechoslovakia
before, during, and after the Second World War, and tells the story of Jaromil, a character who dedicates his life to poetry.
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
-language novel by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...
published in 1973.
The setting for Life Is Elsewhere is Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
before, during, and after the Second World War, and tells the story of Jaromil, a character who dedicates his life to poetry.