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With the eyes of a clown

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With the eyes of a clown
4.99 €
"I am a clown and I collect moments," says of himself Hans Schnier, a beggar artist, "a stranger among strangers, a stranger among his own," the prodigal son of a wealthy society of big bourgeois, the hero of one of the best, most poignant and bitter European books of the twentieth century. The action of Bell's novel, first published in 1963, which critics called "the German "Above the Rye", takes place during just one day in the life of Hans, but this day, in which the events of the present are mixed with memories of the past, summarizes not only the life of the saddest clown, but also the fate of the whole of Germany - at first glance, happy and prosperous, but in reality - deeply experiencing the drama of involvement in the defeated, but not yet forgotten "ordinary fascism" ....
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