Scattering :
As soon as you think that you have understood what is going on around you...until question marks return to appear on your face, proving to you that you are wrong...a novel that combines reality and imagination...its events take place in your reality alone...it carries within it pain and the desire to change events into reality... Another does not exist.. Will that desire continue or will it force you back to continue the life that you did not choose for yourself?
"This is freedom. It is a winter thing that cannot be tolerated for long. In it one must constantly move, as we do now. In freedom one must dance, it is cold and beautiful. But do not fall in love with it, because this will make you very sad later. A person only exists in the areas of freedom for moments, and no more. We have crossed the limit now. Look at the wonderful path on which we are skating, how it is slowly dissolving. You can now see freedom dying. When you open your eyes, this will be a haunting scene The heart is yours many times.”
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Walser treats language in this novel with as much respect as one would treat a revered and close friend at the same time. Hermann Hesse
"Jacob von Gonten" involves a kind of parody of the traditional educational novel.
Christopher Middleton
