Contents

Foreword

The Wedding Ring

Passion

Tales from the Underworld

Farmers in the Revenue Office

Kubsch and His Allotment

Mother Lives on Her Pension

A Burglar’s Dreams Are of His Cell

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

On the Lam

I Get a Job

A Bad Night

The Open Door

War Monument or Urinal?

Happiness and Woe

With Measuring Tape and Watering Can

The Lucky Beggar

Just Like Thirty Years Ago

Fifty Marks and a Merry Christmas

The Good Pasture on the Right

The Missing Greenfinches

Food and Grub

The Good Meadow

Calendar Stories

The Returning Soldier

The Old Flame

Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism

Three Years of Life

Svenda, a Dream Fragment; or, My Worries

Looking for My Father

Note on Sources

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