Living elsewhere

Author: Milan Kundera
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
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That was an era of bad poetry! Not complete! Today's novelists writing about that era always carry a hedonistic blindness, and the books they write are doomed to fail. But lyric poets, though they also have a blind passion for that era, left behind beautiful poems. As we have said before, in the magical land of poetry, all judgments become truth as long as they make later generations believe that society truly experienced those emotions. Poets are always so madly enthusiastic about the emotions they have experienced that their minds are smoking, presenting a dazzling rainbow of colors. The marvelous rainbow above the prison. This book is one of the works of Milan Kundera, Living Elsewhere!
Milan Kundera once said: That was an era of political trials, an era of persecution, an era of piled-up banned books, an era where murder was carried out through so-called laws everywhere. We should bear witness to it; it was not just a terrifying era, but also a lyrical era!