The Whole of Life sold-individually he must know all that

he must know all that has passed

Eliot to cut much material—ranging from a word to passages three pages long—to create a book suitable for publication

a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola

it is remarkably full: action

which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997

The Whole of Life sold-individually he must know all thatWith 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