Rome, Villa Massimo

From Wuppertal to Rome, the highly talented lyricist Peter Ka travels to give his best at the renowned German Academy Villa Massimo. The scholarship in this remarkably isolated cosmos, where artists of all genres have been working studio door to studio door for over a hundred years, lasts an entire year. Hanns-Josef Ortheil, once a scholarship holder at the Villa himself, observes and accompanies the highly sensitive word fetishist during his months in Rome and experiences alongside him the secrets of an often highly comical everyday life between ecstasy, overzealousness, megalomania, and petty internal debates. A satirically sparkling and Rome-fixated novel about the passion of finding the apt word for the extraordinary!


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