Otto Jägersberg’s new work of short prose is the ideal book with which to forget everything around you.

»Where is happiness? It’s wherever you’re not.« In this playful smorgasbord, happiness can be found on every page.

Everyday observations, anecdotes, culinary explorations, mini essays, poems. Otto Jägersberg captures what he encounters on his wanderings with wit, humour and loving precision.

»Where am I? On the internet. Whatever I see, sees me too. Wherever I click, it looks back at me. In the car, too: when I don’t know where I am, the satellite knows. Everything I click helps fill out the image the internet has of me. I don’t yet know what I want, but the internet does. I guide my mouse according to my interests, I’m bringing myself ever closer to my interests, I’m so close now, I’m in pursuit.«

Otto Jägersberg’s diverse prose is both delightfully simple and appealingly complex. Written with a precision that can be both poetic and extremely funny. Short and very short stories full of wayward humour. Calendar stories, sketches of memories from the German past, short stories, incidents from the lives of writers, thinkers and criminals, micro essays, anecdotes, observations.

Flash fiction, memories, short essays, observations and aphorisms: short prose with a lasting effect – by the master of the short form.

How come grey is now called silver metallic? At what point does the word »poet« collapse under its ironic weight? Why is Herwegh, once the greatest poet of all times, hardly read today? Where are the »Global Headquarters of Crime«? And what is the deal with the »Power Block of Reason«?

Comic elements appear alongside the philosophical, scholarly alongside playful, absurd alongside cryptic. Consistently enlightening and surprising, this is a joy to read.