Fetzen : Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen

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Fetzen : Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen

by Alexander Weicker

DE·~7 hours·54 chapters

Chapters

54 total

VORREDE

5:18

ERSTES KAPITEL

6:07

ZWEITES KAPITEL

8:04

DRITTES KAPITEL

6:25

VIERTES KAPITEL

3:52

FÜNFTES KAPITEL.

4:43

SECHSTES KAPITEL

11:37

SIEBENTES KAPITEL

7:08

ACHTES KAPITEL

11:44

NEUNTES KAPITEL

4:05

Description

In a tongue‑in‑cheek confession, a self‑styled “over‑flüssiger” narrator opens the tale with a strange delivery: a half‑read bundle of notes, a live frog wrapped in tin foil, and an ominous “destination – beyond.” He feels bound by a quirky oath to settle his late friend’s debts and to publish the bewildering manuscript that arrived with it. The prelude is a playful mix of melancholy, irony and legal‑sounding threats that set a uniquely off‑beat mood.

What follows is the friend’s lurid student diary, a collage of exaggerated archetypes, impossible weather calculations and absurd chance‑theory riddles. The entries juggle tragic humor with bizarre symbols, turning everyday campus life into a surreal laboratory of misfortune. Listeners are invited to wander through these fragmented pages, sharing the narrator’s reluctant stewardship of a story that is as much a puzzle as it is a tribute.

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Language

de

Duration

~7 hours (443K characters)

Release date

Jun 15, 2025

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Alexander Weicker

Alexander Weicker

1893–1983

A Luxembourgish writer, journalist, and businessman, he is best remembered for the 1921 expressionist novel Fetzen, the only novel he published. His life moved from engineering and political studies in Munich to years in Paris and back to Luxembourg, giving his work an unusually wide horizon.

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