Title: The final ball
First published: 1960
Description: In The Final Ball structure and messier are one: the voices of people seeking fulfillment of their selfish interests can be heard but do not communicate with  each other; thus the fragmentary story develops in thirty snatches of internal monologues “spoken” by a local seamstress, wise and foolish girls, the widow Andernoth whose husband has not returned from the war, a melancholy teacher, a Kaftaesque school-board member, and the dead, forgotten in the scrabble for new cars, new villas, and refrigerators.
Subjects: German literature, postwar, existentialism, jugendbewegt, Rilkean
Places: Berlin, Neu Spuhl, Nascondo Pass
Time periods: 1960
LC classification: PZ3.G12837 Fi