Zündel's Exit

By Markus Werner

Konrad Z ndel is a man at the end of his rope in Markus Werner's cult-hit first novel.

Z ndel's Exit is a dark comedy of psychological disintegration, scrounged from notebooks and hearsay. These fragments tell the story of Konrad Z ndel: schoolteacher, philosopher, wanna-be writer--scattered, self-conscious, anxious, unlucky, discontent. One summer, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. He makes it as far as Italy when he sees a child vomit in a department store, loses his front-tooth on a ferry, then finds a severed finger in a restroom before retreating to his home in Switzerland. Z ndel himself seems on the verge of falling to bits, as his marriage, career, thoughts, and words collapse around him. Will there be anything left, or anyone to hold the pieces?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628976926
• ISBN13: 9781628976922
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 150 Pages