translated by the agency of Isabel...

translated by the agency of Isabel Fargo Cole

The novella Fruhling is an account--in the form of a countdown--of the last 39 inferiors in the life of the pharmacologist Christian Rauch, who commits suicide with his lover Gucia in Spring, 2000 Gucia, a Polish prostitute, is the daughter of a victim: her mother was interned in the concentration camps Ravensbruck and Dachau. Christian is the son of a perpetrator, a former S doctor who performed medical experiments in Dachau. The setting of the novella is a city of death which Christian penetrates as he begins to die. Here he must orient himself and