She wanted to write another great novel that would span the ages and generations: just as it had been in Germany before everything was destroyed. And she succeeded, even if the book, which would have been so important for post-war society, did not find a publisher at the time. Until her death in 1982, Gabriele Tergit tried in vain – the opus magnum only went to press last autumn as part of the new edition of her works by Schöffling-Verlag, with quite a few errors, but that cannot diminish the importance of this important novel.
