The summary of „The State“
The novel begins with a fictional family drama of a Swiss family of the third millennium, which emigrates to England. The reader soon suspects that the term state goes far beyond the borders of nationality. At the beginning there is the bitter struggle between mutants and humans in the foreground. A man-made natural disaster causes the mutants to emerge from their hiding places. How did it come to these mutants, the reader learns on a journey through time in the 20th century. Switzerland is considered a bogeyman because it is the only nation that supports the mutants and favors their survival. She grants them asylum, but after a few decades, repels them to protect themselves from them. Thus, the mutants are paved the way to unfold in the world state. Humans and mutants, who still hate each other, live together with compelled masses. Both parties have to bow to the laws of the world and try, regardless of their type and affiliation, to achieve a position in the hierarchy. Illegal organizations emerge as the expression of deepest dissatisfaction. Now Switzerland is hated by all human civilization as well as all mutants. The parents, Susi and Hans, and their children, Peter and Anna, represent the emigrant family from Switzerland. The ordinary family from the mountain village in Bern gets to feel all the hatred and violence that prevails in the world state. They are torn apart and experience for themselves what exploitation, oppression, fear, anger and violence mean. Susi has to go to a labor camp, Peter, the older son is sent to a children’s home because he has stayed away from school, and Anna falls victim to an illegal mutant organization that keeps her for years and exploits her in a cruel way. Hans remains alone and falls in love with Dragana, once his superiors in a flower shop. The unlikely couple tries to save the world with a „miracle drug“. Hans is abducted by an illegal human organization and then condemned by the state. Dragana also falls victim to an illegal human organization. They exploit her and perfidiously force her to return to civilization after 10 years to deliver a mutant. After a steep career start in the modernized state, she is downgraded to a criminal and put in jail. Both Hans and Dragana are freed when the state literally dissolves to make room for a whole new order. This order turns everything that has been up to now on its head and makes the once powerful of this earth look very old. Tokkor, an ancient mutant, is one of the once most powerful of the lost world state. As the clear boundaries blur, he loses himself in a world that is far too complex for him. Soon, different individuals experience in their own ways what it means to be confronted with a system that goes beyond their imagination of space and time. Many characters of my novel are in the background. For this, new personalities emerge, which try to survive within huge state forms that include entire galaxy groups and more. Hans, who after a long ordeal finally leaves his earthly shell to incarnate into a new, better and more developed human body, can never detach himself from the trauma he has experienced in his past. The dramatic events surrounding conspicuous personalities initially distract the reader from what this fictional novel really is about. At the latest, when one learns of the emergence of the mutants and the course of the development of the conflictual relationship between mutants and humans, one begins to realize that it is less about the persons concerned, but about the abstract term state. The term state is translated into different dimensions, different times and levels. As moving as the tragic stories of individual individuals, families may be, and even entire ethnic groups may be, in the end the story ends with the entire system collapsing.
