Meister Autor; oder, die Geschichten vom versunkenen Garten

An elderly narrator recalls encounters with an eccentric master craftsman who has retained youthful ways despite the world's incomprehension, and frames a series of linked tales gathered during country excursions into an elm forest. Scenes of picnics, parlour games, and small social rivalries alternate with folk anecdotes, remembered legends, and reflections on artistic creation, memory, and generational change. The collection blends gentle satire of bourgeois manners with mythic and folkloric episodes, using local topography and intimate conversation to weave narratives about storytelling, solitude, and the shifting relation between past and present.