In just over thirty years, from 1975 to today, Peter Bichsel has written over 300 columns, stories from and about everyday life, snapshots, encounters, unruly interjections, asides, memories, love declarations. On the occasion of his author's 70th birthday, Suhrkamp Verlag presents all the columns in one volume. "Whoever reads his books in a hundred years will encounter a polyphonic sound structure made up of a thousand nameless voices from today's Switzerland. These voices clamor, whisper, and hum together. Nevertheless, each one can be distinctly heard, and behind it appears a living human face. 'So there were 50 of them,' one will say in a hundred years when reading Peter Bichsel's books." (Peter von Matt).