The eyes of the clown

“I am a clown and collecting moments,” says Hans Schnir, a poor artist, “his own among strangers, a stranger among his" prodigal son of a rich society of a large bourgeois, a hero of one of the best, most piercing and bitter European books of the twentieth century.
The action of Bella Roman, who was first published in 1963, called “German "over the abyss in rye", occurs within only one day of Hans, but this day in which the events of the present are mixed with the memories of the past, summarizes The results of not only the life of the most sad clown, but also the fate of all of Germany, at first glance, happy and prosperous, but in fact - deeply experiencing the drama of involvement in the defeated, but not yet forgotten "ordinary fascism"