Dear Mr. Walter! It has now been almost a year since your stories in the volume 'Kleiner Alltag' have accompanied me, after I purchased them at a Zurich antiquarian bookshop following a recommendation from Gunter Böhmer. Since that time, I had also intended to write to you about how much I enjoyed these little treasures and how vividly they have remained in my memory since the first reading. (Siegfried Unseld to Hans Walter, September 21, 1952) Regarding his prose from the 1940s, Hans Walter explained the everyday life that the Swiss writer saw continuing "despite war, hardship, and uncertainty, as if protected by its unobserved nature." However, in preserving the familiar and traditional, Walter also uncovered the abyssal and destructive. The novel "Güter dieses Lebens" (1953) relentlessly follows the verses.