Zundel's Exit (Swiss Literature)
Zundel's Exit (Swiss Literature) by Markus Werner
English | December 5, 2013 | ISBN: 1564789217 | 126 pages | AZW3 | 0.23 MB
English | December 5, 2013 | ISBN: 1564789217 | 126 pages | AZW3 | 0.23 MB
Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zьndel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. First his tooth falls out in the sight of other travelers, then he finds a severed finger in a restroom on a train. In fact, Zьndel seems on the verge of falling to bits, as do his words, thoughts, wife, and world—will there be anything left, and anyone to hold the pieces? Zьndel's Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if it's coming or going.