A dilapidated house painted so tomato-colored that someone said it was impossible to live in it is a center of this story. The first-person narrator lives in it with his family, and other people live in it, whom he observes as they move in and out just as meticulously as he studies the house rules and marvels at the layers of paint on the walls. The main character, Kieninger, a Viennese, also lives in this house. He is the second center of the story. The first-person narrator struggles with him because Kieninger does not want to reveal so much about himself. Both stories - that of the house and that of Kieninger - are directed by the narrator. Thus we are hopelessly subject to his whims and gradually become part of a complex system. In the tomato-colored house, in which one does not want to live, we have been living for a long time. In "The Seasons", Peter Bichsel (*1935) thematizes the process of writing itself. The master of the art of language lovingly focuses his gaze on the banal that is too easily overlooked. His story collection "Actually, Mrs. Blum would like to meet the milkman" brought him sudden fame in 1964. For "The Seasons", Peter Bichsel received the Group 47 Prize in 1965.
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