The story here revolves around Giaco Gatz, and is narrated by Nick Kumel, and yet every word rings true. But let's go back to the beginning, or rather, the beginning of the end: Nick, a writer from a bygone era, contemplates these words while, outside, the world does not end. 2020: Digital life has become mainstream. For most people, this is completely normal. As for Nick and his generation: disaster. Or so he thinks, until he starts thinking about his old friend Giako...Giaco Gatz, Survivor. Giacco, who embodies the attempt to understand the zeitgeist, and who attempts to approach the world of digital directors with the same sympathy he had for the literary world of his youth.
Giacco appears: Nick's anti-hero.
Giako's version is different: yes, he is a survivor, yes, he has mastered the art of camouflage. Today, Giacco is a content manager (Nick's niece, Sophie, knows what that means), and his tools are very different from those he used in the world he shared with Nick.Nick's analog world, devoid of any realistic basis, is falling apart: everything is growing more chaotic, fluid, and forced. How can he be a human being - how can anyone be an artist - if things will never be the same again?
Yesterday: Literature - Today: Content?...on idols and sentiment, avant-garde nostalgia, and the transformation of culture: Walter Grund gives his protagonists a unique perspective on the artistic and literary scene of the 1980s and 1990s; A scene with no stability other than its constant turmoil. He wonders how literature can become content, and how art has been displaced from its center - its orbit - by the process of communication itself. Grund's language is precise and clear, full of humorous self-awareness and generational insight. Nothing is left to chance; We are surprised on every new page.
