{"product_id":"whole-of-life","title":"Jurg Laederach: Whole of Life [2014] paperback","description":"\"\"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.","brand":"Laederach, Jurg \u0026 Howes, Geoffrey C","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48833895268691,"sku":"XV81564789075","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/laederach-jurg-howes-geoffrey-c-whole-of-life-xv81564789075-56677488329043.jpg?v=1726417034","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/whole-of-life","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}