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In the 19th came the industrialization, and with it the pauperization of workers everywhere. Victor Hugo wrote so heart-wrenchingly about their misery in his social novel Les Misérables that the story still lures millions of musical-goers to the theaters today.

A society which knows no god is a brutal society. At least that is what von Horváth’s novel claims. Alluding to Nazi Germany, it shows how one’s own survival trumps humanity, and cowardice wins against civic courage.

The novel did not make much of an impact after its publication in the late 1920s. Until it was rediscovered in the 1960s and became the Bible of the hippie movement. How Hesse distilled the spirit of an entire generation into one book.

Once upon a time, there lived two brothers by the name of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They set out to collect all the fairytales the people up and down the country would tell them. After all, it would be a shame if they were lost because no one had bothered to write them down…

As a child, you can hardly wait to be a grown-up. Owning your own money, eating as many sweets as you want and staying up late! And what do grown-ups dream of? Their childhood of course. To escape from their boring everyday lives, back to a childish fantasy world, without work or duties…