Severins Gang in die Finsternis: Ein Prager Gespensterroman

The narrative follows Severin, a restless young clerk whose monotonous days and unfulfilled desires push him into nightly wanderings through a shadowed city. Haunted by memories of an adventurous book and tormented longing for a more violent, passionate existence, he drifts between parks, empty streets and feverish dreams, observing urban life like a distant spectacle. His relationship with Zdenka and the daily grind contrast with mounting inner agitation, suggestive supernatural unease, and physical disturbance as storm, fever and ominous sensations deepen the work's atmosphere of psychological and ghostly disquiet.