One of the beautiful wonders of Elias Hirschl’s writing is how skillfully he mixes hybrid moods, how he manages to blend the sad with the murderous. The result is not a so-called emotional rollercoaster, which, according to Kneipp, was supposed to get the reader’s circulation going. The result is rather a scene like the fourth of the 32 short chapters of “Content”.
Elias Hirschl’s “Content”: The Messenger of Carnage – Culture
