Jürg Laederach

Whole of Life (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Howes, Geoffrey C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet." -Jürg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one-time enfant terrible of Swiss literature Jürg 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781564789426
• Artikelnr.: 40890981

Autorenporträt

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.