Raddatz's three-volume cycle about his literary alter ego Bernd Walther spans from the 1930s to the late 1950s, covering the Nazi dictatorship, the proletarian one, and the escape into capitalism. It is a document of a chaotic time, a report on the erratic journey of a young yearning for fulfillment, politically ruthless and shamelessly private, written under the life motto "desire is stronger than fear." The protagonist is a hero of our time, surrounded by a panorama of contemporaries, all captured in Raddatz's characteristic aesthetics of exposure and revelation. Thus, Raddatz not only tells an unusual life story but also makes the political and human distortions of the post-war period visible. The volume includes: Cow Eye; The Cloud Drinker; The Abortion.