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Only everything is everything. But can man bear everything? Damian, Swiss Don Juan and theologian, wants everything from life. He wants sex, he wants knowledge, he wants humiliation, he wants absolute freedom. He wants death. And that marks the beginning. In a dream, Damian sees his body being pulled out of Lake Zurich. The sign of an infection with HIV during a one-night stand a few days before, that is certain. A swollen calf and Google seem to confirm the death sentence. Completely sore from the friction between Eros and Thanatos, he enters the final phase of his struggle with his guarantors Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger: for, with and against God. Christian Uetz's third novel is an imposition in the very best sense. With linguistic virtuosity, shamelessness, and lightning wit, he takes the reader to the limits of being and even beyond. What he finds there, i.