"My neighbor, the artist, the flowers and the revolutionary"

The neighbor, the artist, the flowers and the revolutionary is the title of the debut novel by Martin Felder. It is full of esprit and wordplay – as daring in form and content as it is successful.

A writer hops after a grasshopper in the laundry room, gets caught, and falls in love with the neighbor. An artist makes an exhibition of paintings he hasn't painted yet, and he has to transport them. A revolutionary goes into hiding and reappears. When the beloved neighbor leaves, the author and first-person narrator in Martin Felder's first novel sets out: He searches for her in Berlin, Hamburg and Paris. And at the same time, in pointed observations and sometimes witty, sometimes poetic splinters of thought, he scouts out his place between word and deed, fantasy and love, Malevich and Chaplin.

Martin Felder was born in Rheinfelden in 1974, studied philosophy, Spanish and German in Geneva and graduated from the screenwriting workshop of the HFF Munich. He is a member of the Autorengruppe index, Zurich and the Forum Hamburger Autoren and lives in Lucerne. Most important awards: Werkbeitrag für Literatur von Stadt und Kanton Luzern, Prix Jeanne Hersch en Ethique ou Philosophie Morale.