Reviews

Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera

hazelnutperson's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

callmebella's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

jeannepirouette's review against another edition

1.0

Offert par Nour
C’est violent et pas si bien écrit… en fait j’aime pas Kundera je crois

thekid7887's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It's starts off slow, but around page fifty it picks up and then is interesting to the end. 

maruijuana's review against another edition

4.0

painfully realistic without idealization. honest with the hypocricies: political as well as personal.

arno23's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

sparky66761's review

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

groundsandwich's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

ericfheiman's review against another edition

4.0

Portrait of the artist as a young man (who dies too young).

Life is Elsewhere might have received five stars if I had read this in my impressionable youth. Now, it reads as a cautionary tale of what might happen when culture is overpoliced in the name of so-called “decency.”

alexanderjamie's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Milan Kundera tackles themes of youth, love, the absolute, poetry, our imprisonment to our own perspectives, and maturity in this interesting take which I felt was quite slow in the first third but promptly picks up.