What is as beautiful as it is disappointing about the successful author Robert Seethaler is his stylistic reliability. In the language of advertising, one could say that Seethaler’s books – beginning with the cover but not ending there – have a consistently spelled out character Look&Feel, and they always come onto the market with a clear product promise: You, reader, will cry a little and laugh a little, you will think about life and death fundamentally and yet casually, this time too, by the way, without finding a solution or even just an ending, because there isn’t and that’s not the point, and you know that too. Above all, you will be a little wistful again, but without having to fear that the world will pass away immediately.
Robert Seethaler’s “The Café with No Name”: If you fail, then with him – culture
