German Edition, 1975 Excellent condition, few underlined paragraphs, Although he has dismissed everything he knew with disgust and weariness and can no longer imagine a future, Gregor Keuschnig, press officer at the Austrian embassy in Paris, is faced with the unforeseeable threat of isolation and is still making contact with his usual contacts. I know my wife's intelligence and comfort, and that is what the sentence says, which can be found in a back-plan of a note: "Don't expect me to give you the meaning of your life." Keuschnig understands that there will no longer be an intact system for his life either. In the "hour of true feeling," Keuschnig recognizes himself in a new and liberated way, identical with himself, capable of authentic experiences. After his child is kidnapped from a playground and, in his terror and helplessness, decides not to live any longer, he suddenly experiences how his "long indifference" ISBN: 3518369620 3.92 oz 4.21 x 0.31 x 6.97 inches 166 pages Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1975 Printed in Germany