Herbert Rosendorfer's new posthumous stories are filled with metamorphoses, journeys, and dreams. They are often fairy-tale-like and populated by grotesque figures: there is the congenial Gogol parody of the well-behaved servant Fedja and the supposedly transformed frog general Turkin. There is the cactus of an involuntary tax sinner that gradually grows into a charming Pygmalion. There is a wedding planner for dogs from Ulm and his wife, who perform as Onassis and Jackie Kennedy. There are dragons and dwarfs, centaurs working as foresters, and a diplomatic mule in the Andes. In passing, the lost ending of Kafka's novel "The Castle" is revealed, a glass book announces the Golden Wind that sands the world into a desert, and the puzzle game around an opulently baroque secret society in Venice unfolds.