Everything you need to understand or teach Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera.
The poet's mother gets pregnant by a young engineer, and to her shock, the engineer wants her to have an abortion. The poet's mother refuses and instead has her parents make the engineer marry her. The mother imagines that she conceived of the poet by way of Apollo, and names him Jaromil, a name in Czech almost as exalted as Apollo. Jaromil grows up a spoiled child, not only because of...
Life Is Elsewhere Lesson Plans contain 194 pages of teaching material, including: