Fiction. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. Four adults, a child and a cat travel from Germany to Bordeaux. Harig tells their adventures in humorous permutations, word-games, Baroquisms, confrontations, catalogs: anything but straightforward narrative. Ludwig Harig was born in Sulzbach/Saarland in 1927. After being an assistant d'allemand in Lyon and a grade school teacher, he has, since 1974, lived as a freelance writer.