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Language: German
Length: 304 pages
Finding your way in the wild nights without going under. Understanding women with dubious career plans and conquering them anyway: Götz Schrage's gusher awakens exciting desires and offers equally exciting insights into the nocturnal goings-on of not-so-bad boys.
If you want to keep the image of Vienna in which Franz Josef and Sissi sit with Mozart in the coffee house, where Hans Moser plays the waiter and Inspector Rex dutifully retrieves the bread roll, then your book should be a different one. Otherwise your sugar-pink world of Vienna would have been covered in a humorous grey after reading this soul strip. Schrage paints a different, more honest picture of Vienna and its characters. Schrage's theme is the surreal, the sick, the repulsive in everyday life. Götz Schrage describes outsiders such as gamblers, pimps, prostitutes, nudists, the mentally and physically handicapped, emigrants and the sex fantasies they have and have not achieved. But ordinary, average people also find a worthy place in his novel and are described in poses of disturbing strangeness and attractive closeness. In his book, however, the enthusiast mainly explains himself and his life in an environment that is alien to us, with all its strange laws and foreign rituals, with a great deal of humor and cynical thought processes. Only when you have read this book will you be able to understand the men, the game, the night and Vienna better.