Kahn, Knaben, Schnelle Fahrt

After the spectacular excursions of his previous novels into the pictorial worlds of
Caravaggio and de Sade, Christoph Geiser returned to his autobiographical subject matter in 1995 and wrote
and wrote Kahn, Knaben schnelle Fahrt, his coming-of-age novel, his very personal "éducation sentiment".
age novel, his very personal "éducation sentimentale". In his mother's new
mother's new flat, a home that is no longer his own, the narrator encounters
narrator encounters himself as a child: the photograph of a 14-year-old with large, protruding ears and
ears and a stubbornly disturbed look. How this portrait came about
he no longer knows. But he remembers the boy he was back then
a helpless outsider with philosophical inclinations and sexual needs, a child with the
sexual needs, a child with the obsessive idea of joining a monastery to escape his family.
escape the family. This journey to the monastery, where his father finally drove him reluctantly
becomes the pivotal and turning point of the story. From the distance of
thirty years, the narrator repeats the journey, accompanies his alter ego to the monastery once again and
to the monastery once again and invents a new biography for the child he was. With
irony, he tries to break down the boy's closed-mindedness, to be his mentor and
mentor and Mephisto, leading him away from his mother and playfully introducing him
and playfully introduces him to sexuality and eroticism.