Life is Elsewhere

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de fource, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.

'The novel, of course, does not answer questions. The questions are already an answer in themselves, for, as Heidegger put it: the essence of man has the form of question'. - from the introduction