Aladdin's problem. Junger E.

Ernst Yunger has always been interested in the paradoxes of the material existence and the problem of human loneliness in an industrial society. These topics were reflected in the “Aladdin problem”-an allegorical, philosophical and poetic novel dating back to the late period of the author’s work.

In search of a better life, soldiers from East Germany Frederick Baro deserts west and will begin to engage in funeral business. Things are gradually going uphill, and Frederick understands that he has become part of a large commercial enterprise that humiliates the dignity of the deceased and turns it into an elementary unit of statistics.

Baro is close to madness, money does not bring him joy insoluble for him It becomes, as he himself calls it, “Aladdin's problem”: possessing great power, Baro cannot find her correct application...