Digitalization, globalization, and the all-dominating market ideology have created a web of dependencies that has become so complex that individuals are reaching the limits of their capacity to comprehend. Without fixed reference points, one finds oneself in a world dominated by cracks and abysses. This feeling of confusion and disconnection threatens to turn into primitivism, which, depending on the circumstances, can take on animistic, nationalistic, racist, or religious fundamentalist traits - with corresponding consequences for perceptions of reality, life concepts, and social interactions among people. Not so in literature. What troubles us most is that we cannot grasp or articulate the feeling that threatens to overwhelm us. What exactly is it that causes this sense of instability? What awakens in us the feeling of I.