On marble cliffs

The book, exceptional in importance for European literature - both as one of the best examples of German -language modernism, and as one of the most striking anti -utopias of the twentieth century. The novel, which fully reflected the critical attitude of the author to the ideas of National Socialism.
A strange state Big Bay, existing as if outside the spaces and times and, as it were, frozen in the realities of the late Middle Ages. The state, which existed quite safely, until the cynical, smart and cruel senior forester came to power, more likely hating beauty in the world, since it is in it that he sees the aesthetic expression of freedom.
Now the course of events cannot be stopped. The nameless storyteller and his brother, hiding on marble cliffs, resist, trying to resist the destruction of culture for its coming revival