The Whole of Life Essentials critics have read this book

critics have read this book as a metaphor of postwar Japanese society

without a life of her own

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In this spellbinding

"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author

The Whole of Life Essentials critics have read this bookWith 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