Lukas Bärfuss
Hundert Tage
[100 days]
Wallstein Verlag
Göttingen 2008
200 pages

Lukas Bärfuss, born in Zurich in 1971, is one of the most important young dramatists writing in German today. After first finding his voice with a number of early pieces he produced a veritable masterpiece in 2005 with Der Bus (The bus), a play that well demonstrates his priceless knack of summoning up an entire world on the stage. His debut novel Hundert Tage (100 days) is an intense and powerful book full of relentless existential gravity that is likely to make a deep impression on all but the most callous or thick-skinned reader....

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