The Whole of Life sold-individuallyWith tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one time enfant terrible of Swiss literature Jrg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence into a single novel. 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
speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were small children during the Spanish Civil War
” —Giles Gorden
A dark and complex story of the way ideology can destroy the individual
which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997
it is remarkably full: action
They are sly
a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola
Eliot to cut much material—ranging from a word to passages three pages long—to create a book suitable for publication
by alcohol
Joseph Roth
he must know all that has passed
with their bold formal conceits and reckless restrictions (