{"product_id":"9781564789075","title":"Whole of Life (Swiss Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48779993121003,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":27.46,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781564789075-1.jpg?v=1781690230","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781564789075","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}