»This is the story of the musician Johannes Elias Alder, who at the age of twenty-two ended his life after he had decided not to sleep anymore.« Thus begins Robert Schneider's debut novel, with which he achieved worldwide literary success 30 years ago. The opening sentence foreshadows the story of the life of a genius in the confines of an Austrian mountain village: Already as
»This is the story of the musician Johannes Elias Alder, who at the age of twenty-two ended his life after he had decided not to sleep anymore.« Thus begins Robert Schneider's debut novel, with which he achieved worldwide literary success 30 years ago. The opening sentence foreshadows the story of the life of a genius in the confines of an Austrian mountain village: Already as