On Lotte’s Tomb

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. JOURNEYING 1
4. Preface 3
5. In Don Quixote’s Footsteps 24
6. Marionettes in Madrid 31
7. The Bibliophage 36
8. At the “Mentitoio” 37
9. A Father, a Son 40
10. Spoon River in Cantabria 42
11. Don Serafin’s First Flight 47
12. In London, at School 53
13. The Fortunate Isles 60
14. The Prussian Road to Peace 67
15. The Old Prussia Puts On a Show 71
16. The Wall 77
17. On Lotte’s Tomb 82
18. In Freiburg the Day of German Unity Is Remote 83
19. The Dying Forest 87
20. Ludwig’s Castles in the Air 93
21. Among the Sorbs of Lusatia 105
22. The Anonymous Viennese 116
23. Schoenberg’s Table 121
24. The Rabbi’s Dance 127
25. Musical Automatons in Zagreb 133
26. Istrian Spring 139
27. Cici and Ciribiri 145
28. In Bisiacaria 153
29. A Fateful Hyphen 163
30. On the Charles Bridge 169
31. The Country Without a Name 176
32. The Tragedy and the Nightmare 182
33. Poland Turns the Page 187
34. On Raskolnikov’s Landing 193
35. The Birch Whistle 198
36. A Hippopotamus in Lund 201
37. The Woodland Cemetery 206
38. The Fjord 210
39. Parish of the North 214
40. Water and Desert 220
41. Is China Near? 236
42. The Borders of Vietnam 245
43. The Great South 254
44. Note 261
45. Translator’s Notes 263