Status Updates From The Sleepwalkers

The first novels, the Romantics reads like a late Victorian novel in the English translation and I assume the German is similar. The language is formal and carefully phrased in the Victorian style. However, I found it kind of stilted. They were very few characters, the hero, his one friend, his parents, his Polish mistress, the woman he marries and her parents. The friend is therefore sort of

For anyone who is bound only by very frail threads, threads that are scarcely palpable to him, to what other people or he himself calls life, getting up in the morning is always a hard task. Perhaps even a slight violation.

Rereading this as part of my Germany month ahead of going to Berlin