Anton‘s Bark - Ten

The mystery of Chapter Eight is that the writer is no longer in a condition to be able to write it. Yet despite his condition, Anton is still able to imagine it. Even as far as the real Otto is concerned, this next chapter, which he reads for us, puts him where he’d always wanted to be, sitting opposite Marie in the Spitzenhof café. To his dismay however, and because of the interferences of the godly priest, the fictional Otto finds himself in possession of a large sum of money, which he’d never predicted having. By means of his capacity to narrate, the real Otto tries to take control of Anton’s book, or at least to take control of the writer who’d been swallowed into Unseen while writing Otto in Flames. And so, a new story begins. As the real Otto sees it, Anton Matins has become a strange creature, on an urgent quest to get back out of the cave, in order to be reunited with his long lost wife, Oksana. It is with this in mind that Chapter Nine begins to flow into Anton’s potent imagination.