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We are only completely ourselves when we are beside ourselves. Let no one say that this fact has not always resulted in the most beautiful literature. Saskia Hennig von Lange's completely astonishing debut 'Alles was draußen ist' also tells a brilliant story of the dissolution of boundaries. An anatomical museum with its specimens, models and death masks, a beautiful unknown woman from the Seine and a Robespierre, and in the middle of it all a man who has become an object to himself over the years.

In linguistically precise notes, he keeps a record of his life and his walks through the house, of the strange inventory and of a repeatedly audible but invisible 'downstairs dweller'. This novella is a literary feat in which the unconscious is revealed and in which the human surfaces show an unfathomable depth. From the body, from the skin and the senses, the path of the narrative leads into abysses in which distant fates reverberate just as much as the great material of literature.

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