Being as a journey on the swaying deck of modernity, influenced by a self-governing, hardly alterable element: this is what the three parts of the "Logbooks" testify to. Written between 1937 and 1955, they are poetic documents of enforced homelessness and advancing disillusionment. Nevertheless, this odyssey of the 20th century—without a predetermined goal of return—encourages an emphatic understanding of dignified existence, "now that the world only hosts strangers.".