The New Apartment (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinz Huber
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His wife, Marx Messemer, Kay Messemer, Fraulein Kliesing
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Husbands, Wives, Europe or Europeans, Jazz music, Apartment houses, Germany or German people, Materialism, Parties
- Locales: Germany
The Story
The narrator describes a bland and uneventful social gathering at the home of Marx and Kay Messemer, a young upwardly mobile couple who are proud of their newly acquired, completely refurbished apartment. Its wall-to-wall carpeting is graphite gray; its furniture is severely functional; and its walls are bare, except for a single painting. One of its few decorations is a leafless branch in a large glass vase. The effect reminds the narrator of the Italian artist Giorgio Chirico, whose surrealistic paintings of deserted city squares convey uncanny feelings of...
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