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 Molar
and His Children is the first volume of Trutz Hardo's spiritual-historical
Seven-Colour
novel.
The book opens with the "Author" ::
who should be viewed as a spirit ::
calling upon the "Reader" to join him in his spacelessness
and timelessness and offering him the co-authorship of the book
to be written about the poet Molar and his family.
Author and Reader are able to join any time period they wish, and
once they are there, they are able to read the thoughts of people
and also inspire them. They thus take a close look at the life of
the lyric poet Molar :: 1907-1964
::, a man hailing from Thuringia
who really existed and wrote poetry under this pseudonym. The Molar
novel undertakes to tell the full story of the poet's "epic
year"
:: 1949 ::,
recreating his life and times with poetic licence.
At the time, the novel's hero and his family lived in in a shack
provided for refugees in the town of Meersburg situated on Lake
Constance. Molar spends his time traveling all over West Germany,
trying in restaurants and trains to bring his poetry to people's
attention. While Molar forms the central figure of the story, the
fate of several other characters is also narrated, with the book
covering both their present :: 1949
:: and their past.
The past, without exception, has left its mark on these Meersburg
refugees, and uncovering it - which also throws light on the present
actions of the person concerned - also retraces the history of the
Third Reich, World War II and the postwar period. Thus an extended
saga of a family and of people "in the same boat" develops
into an insight into the history of the German people.
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