Whole of Life
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 dimensi…
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Weitere Autoren: Howes, Geoffrey C (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-907-5
- EAN: 9781564789075
- Produktnummer: 34040684
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Über den Autor
Jurg Laederach was born in 1945 in Basel, where he still lives and works as a freelance writer and translator. He studied mathematics in Zurich, as well as Romance studies, English, and musicology in Basel. He has received a number of prizes and distinctions and is a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1997 and the Italo Svevo Award in 2005.
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