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Oskar Fiala und das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung
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When Oskar Fiala—a forgotten, obscure author rooted in the left-wing Social Democratic movement—died impoverished and anonymous in a Leipzig suburb in 1948, his death certificate listed his occupation simply as "civil engineering laborer." The young journalist and writer had led a restless, aimless, wandering life crisscrossing Europe—a life brought to an end only by the World War. Time and again, he experienced bouts of dissociative disorder and the emergence of a new identity, under whose guise he would carry out the most daring exploits. He gathered experiences that presented themselves to him as "worlds within worlds," within the confines of which he knew how to elaborate his escapades. Oskar Fiala gazes ceaselessly around these worlds-within-worlds, linking the incompatible—yet doing so in such a way that an uncanny thread weaves through them, causing the entire fabric to intertwine and appear as a colorful, unified whole. Oswald Egger’s book on Oskar Fiala and the principle of least action is dedicated to the shaping and blending of the vast quantities of experiential content: much like threads in a weave that alternately release, hold, and bind one another, no single thought emerges—literally isolated and cut off from the rest—but rather a structure so firm, so inextricable, and so thoroughly interwoven that everything consists, and appears to consist, of a single piece.
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