“When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.”
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Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry, in a "remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man" ("Newsweek").
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Milan Kundera
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“When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.”
“In this book time thus flows in a tempo opposite that of real life: the tempo slows down as the years go by.”
“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so into...”