Erzählungen 01. Kurzgefasster Lebenslauf und andere frühe Pr

Eccentrics they are, Hermann Burger's heroes. We encounter them already in his first storybook Bork (1970), and even more so in the second, Diabelli (1979), a highlight of modern narrative art. But it is a long way from one to the other. These sentences begin the epilogue of Beatrice von Matt. In the years between the two collections of short stories, Burgers' breakthrough as an internationally acclaimed author, his self-dramatization between word art and magic, the beginning of his depression and the development of an intensive literary and cultural journalistic work. In his stories, the author from Switzerland shows the high school of his art: meticulous research, perfect eloquence and profound humour.