Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai

Author:László Krasznahorkai
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions

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and he had already turned back, and he had already rung the bell at the Garni, and he’d already said into the intercom: oh, I’m sorry for the trouble, I only wanted to ask if you, Frau Hopf, might have some device for listening to music, what? asked a reluctant voice, and Florian slowly, and more loudly, repeated his question, and the reply came: we have a hi-fi tower in the living room, but what do you need that for? ah, it’s not about me, Florian answered, I’ll explain later, and he said goodbye, no reciprocal greeting was heard from the intercom, because Frau Hopf was upset, just as she was generally upset these days, and now this Florian, because all she needed was for him to start blabbing about something, and then before too long they would come at midnight from across the street, and—as had already happened once before—kick apart the Garni’s gate, Frau Hopf decided that she would not stand idly by waiting for this to happen, so she went to Ringer’s repair shop on Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße, because he was the only one she knew who had unconditionally stood up to the residents of Burgstraße 19, and more than once; she’d also heard that he helped anyone in need, and she was not disappointed, because Ringer immediately put aside what he was repairing, invited her into his repair shop, offered her a seat and a glass of water, and he said: dear lady, please do not worry, for I am not one to sit with my hands idly in my lap while these scoundrels behave with ever more impunity, and you are right, he said, his face clouded over, without a doubt, the horrendous events of recent times underline the unconditional need for a civilian alliance, and believe me when I say that such a civilian alliance—one that will put an end to these horrific events—already exists, and with that Ringer said goodbye to Frau Hopf who, after this conversation, returned home in an even more perturbed state, not only did she lock the gate, she barricaded it with an iron bolt which the Hopfs had never used before, while Ringer called up an acquaintance of his from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and he reported that every day now, ordinary citizens were coming to him because they feared that everything they had worked for, everything that they had built up and which, until now, they had believed to be secure, would all come to naught in the current chaotic political situation, then he went back to the repair he’d been working on, installing a new filter in a 2010 Ford; Florian, making use of his newfound freedom, traveled to Jena on the 11:30 bus and went to the Mr. Music shop on Kahlaische Straße, and in the one-euro sales bins immediately found what he’d been looking for, because he felt that Frau Hopf should not begin with the great Passions,

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