This is an interesting novel which stylewise reminded me of [b:Invisible Cities|9809|Invisible Cities|Italo Calvino|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468623303s/9809.jpg|68476] and [b:1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts|13640736|1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts|Florian Illies|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1336576123s/13640736.jpg|19255252], both fantastic books. It consists of a huge number of anecdotes, facts, quotes etc. but what I was missing a bit was the story. It exists, but there is so very little of it that you could almost miss it. If you want to understand this book at all you have to read it from beginning to end and not just parts of it because otherwise you won't understand the end. Like in Invisible Cities it would be very interesting to do some research on some of the epigraphs, take a closer look at the structure etc. Thsi book is not for everyone because you often need quite a broad education to understand what the author is talking about. It's an interesting experiment but still readable.