live elsewhere

Because the real life is elsewhere. Students dug up paving stones, overturned cars, and built barricades;
Their movement into the world is beautiful and noisy,
There were flames to light them, and tear gas explosions and smoke to welcome them.
They stand behind the barricades and refuse any compromise with the old masters of the world.
Human liberation must be comprehensive, otherwise it is not liberation.
Dreams are reality, the students wrote on the wall,
But it seems like the opposite is true:
This reality (barricades, chopped trees, red flags) is the dream...

"Living elsewhere" is a famous saying of the 19th-century French poet Han Bo. In this name, Kundera constructed an epic about youth.
When life is so mediocre, when beautiful ideals and cold reality collide with each other, to young minds, real life always seems to be elsewhere; and poetry, love and revolution become the most romantic resistance. . Through the perspective of the protagonist Jaromil, Kundera explores what youth is at the intersection of reality and dreams. What is the essence of life? It not only presents the appearance of a turbulent era, but also gives us a glimpse into the master's inner world.