Botho Strauss is one of the most unconventional and therefore most influential writers in German literature. He has always resisted the mainstream and has become the most precise observer of our society. Sebastian Kleinschmidt, longtime editor of the literary magazine "Sinn und Form," has compiled a surprising book that comprehensively represents the spirit of the author, the way he thinks and feels, his worldview, and even the logic of his heart: freedom and history, man and woman, the crowd, the home, and silence. Especially the attention to nature and landscape opens up a completely different path to a work that stands uniquely in the present of Germany.