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- Author: Jurg Laederach
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pages: 300
- ISBN-10: 1564789071
- ISBN-13: 9781564789075
- Format: 14 x 21.3 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one-time enfant terrible of Swiss literature J?rg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence into a single novel. The Whole of Life tells the story of a man, Robert Bob Hecht, in three sections: Job, about work and looking for work; Wife, about sex during a bout of impotence; and Totems and Taboos, in which Bob himself ruminates on the limitlessness of human limitation. In Life, space is compressed to the suffocating dimensions of a single mind, while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes. Bodies are vivisected and reassembled, and language is invaded, exploded, and reassembled. The Whole of Life sees Laederach composing a novel by taking it apart as he goes.
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- Author: Jurg Laederach
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pages: 300
- ISBN-10: 1564789071
- ISBN-13: 9781564789075
- Format: 14 x 21.3 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one-time enfant terrible of Swiss literature J?rg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence into a single novel. The Whole of Life tells the story of a man, Robert Bob Hecht, in three sections: Job, about work and looking for work; Wife, about sex during a bout of impotence; and Totems and Taboos, in which Bob himself ruminates on the limitlessness of human limitation. In Life, space is compressed to the suffocating dimensions of a single mind, while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes. Bodies are vivisected and reassembled, and language is invaded, exploded, and reassembled. The Whole of Life sees Laederach composing a novel by taking it apart as he goes.
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