Franziska zu Reventlow's key novel about the Schwabing scene – one of the breeding grounds of the German avant-gardes – is everything that good literature can be: brief, humorous, a document, an attempt to somehow grasp life – and what a life this woman led – through language. Reventlow describes, in a naïve-ironical manner, the petty wars and whims of the Munich bohemians, dandies, late risers, dreamers, esotericists, and other eccentric yet wonderful characters who made Munich a center of German culture before the great collapse.