[from the back of the book]
"If we are surrounded by death in life, so also in the health of the mind by madness."
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Five adventures in the 1920s revolve around the shallows of mental health, the finality of death and the equally final possibility of return:
De Bello Mundo: From a sanatorium in southern Germany to the Mediterranean, madness is flourishing.
Der Schwarm (The Swarm): Two sisters, a country estate, and countless ways to lose your life. But is death the end?
Hydrotherapie (Hydrotherapy): Death is the end? Ridiculous! Have the therapies come to an end? Hardly...
Raunächte (rough translation: "hard winter nights"): In a sleepy Baltic Sea resort, it is not easy to go from life to death. You are more likely to lose your mind ...
Schrödinger: Death and madness (in any order) lurk in many times and dimensions when you deal with the legacies of a brilliantly crazy researcher.