Sanssouci Verlag 2008

The book The King and the Sea consists of 21 short stories, each telling of a different encounter with the king, for example: the cat, the bee, the rain, the spirit, the clouds, or tiredness. Most of the time the king begins by acting like a king, commanding his interlocutor do something or other: that the rain stop, the clouds stay put over his kingdom. But of course the clouds move on, and the rain doesn’t stop. The king comes to realize that he doesn’t have power over everything...