When he wanted to write, Samuel Beckett retreated to his small country house in Ussy-sur-Marne. Here, numerous masterpieces were created. But it was also here that his writer's block celebrated true triumphs! A nine-month scholarship is supposed to enable the protagonist in Wieczorek's novella to write an essay about Beckett's writing refuge. A beginning is soon found, but writing abruptly stops when a tuba player across the garden in the "Spanish House" starts his daily practice. Scales, staccato exercises, trills. It's enough to make you cry, to laugh, but not to write. Parallels become apparent when, for example, Monsieur Horviller begins to build a hunting lodge in front of Beckett's garden. "Neurosis does not write," said Beckett's psychoanalyst Ruprecht Bion once; it is always the healthy part of the writer's soul that produces a work.