Der Fürst spricht : Roman

A superficially very simple story about a ruling prince, his steward and his new administrator, set in a world of almost fairy-tale abstraction, turns into a dark and very moving analysis of loneliness. The prince clumsily reaches out to the two other characters and to a stray dog to try to

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establish some sort of emotional bond, but each time he ends up doing more harm than good. All the while, just offstage, a pretty girl flirts effortlessly with the prince's coachman.

Written in the pared down, simplified tradition of Kafka (and with more than a hint of Robert Walser), this condenses a whole novel into under eighty pages. It would clearly make a great stage-play too.

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