Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections "There is in Machado’s prose

"There is in Machado’s prose a playfulness that teases the reader

With stories addressing subjects as diverse as blood feuds

Klaus Merz

which promotes art as a form of knowledge

The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener

Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections "There is in Machado’s proseScrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zndel: a philosopher, a wanna be writer; scattered, self conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zndels Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if its coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks