Lektürehilfen Alfred Andersch "Sansibar oder der letzte Grund"

Understanding and interpreting literature "Could one live without a commission?" is the central question of Alfred Andersch's time-critical novel Zanzibar or the Last Reason (1957). At the end of the 1930s, five people met by chance in a town on the Baltic coast. They want to flee from the terror of the totalitarian regime in Germany and search - each for himself and together for the threatened sculpture "Der lesende Klosterschüler" by Ernst Barlach - for a new mission in their lives. The island of Zanzibar functions as a symbolic place of longing.