In search of beauty, a man embarks on a journey through the centuries, discovering their horrors. Another man loses himself in love, yet encounters only its impossibility. And a third is led to gaze into the abyss by the eschatological question of ›the last things‹. Hartmut Lange manages to comprehend our troubles in a way almost no other contemporary writer can; to distil them into words; and to simultaneously get right to the heart of the matter in a way thatʼs simply inescapable.