Life Is Elsewhere
by Milan Kundera
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (fi...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Neil Strauss
“I think it?s an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing | I think it’s an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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