For a writer, family is a true goldmine: Instead of claiming his inheritance, the author prefers to forgo it and receive it directly in the form of fiction. What exactly is autobiographical in this key text, now available for the first time in German translation, and what is fictional, is also what the question mark in the above quote stands for. As a burning unknown, it shapes and deforms the autofictional projection surface of a "family live show" made up of childhood and youth scenes. The reader is faced with a shimmering mirror of literature, in whose caustically sharp, sadly dull, and fleshily sensual images he may not only recognize Guibert as a radical author but perhaps also himself.