In Peter Hodina's trilogy "Steine und Bausteine," the words of his famous compatriot Karl Kraus resonate: "I will not be hindered from shaping what hinders me from shaping." In a societal environment surrounded by sacred cows, where one seems at times to be suffocated by them, Hodina stages the joyful bursting of crusts and outdated perspectives. The slaughtering of sacred cows is not an end in itself or a display of critical posturing; rather, the author uncompromisingly elevates the existentially necessary breakthrough to a literary theme, without being serious or overly significant.