by Gert Jonke (Author), Johannes W. Vazulik (Translator), Johannes W. Vazulik (Afterword by)

An innovative satire on the process by which bureaucracy and official regimentation insidiously pervade society. In a deadpan, pseudo-scientific tone, the nameless narrator takes us on a tour of a bizarre village whose inhabitants lead such habitual, regulated lives that they resemble elements in a mathematical equation.