Lasting enjoyment: Those who indulge in the reading pleasure of "Ballmann's Suffering" will find more joy in life, especially if they are repeatedly subjected to the peculiarities of the justice system, whether as a party to a process or in their profession. These absurdities are easier to endure when they have been examined in such detail and with irony. However, "Ballmann's Suffering" is much more than a brilliant study of a social milieu: it is a reflection on the thin veneer that separates bourgeois normality from thoughtful madness, and above all, a literary investigation into how real what we consider reality truly is.