Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Albert Drach: Revolutionary Poet and Bearer of Death -- 1.2 »O Ophelia«: The Encounter with the Cadaver -- 1.3 Status Nascendi versus Status Quo: In defence of Nature Morte -- 1.4 Positions -- 1.5 The Child in Flight -- Chapter 2. The Grotesque: Topography of Transgression, Morphology of Emptiness -- 2.1 Body Language -- 2.2 An Entire Thematics of Mortality and Vitality -- 2.3 Subterranean Spaces -- Chapter 3. Grotesque Discourses: Mourning and Melancholia -- 3.1 Constellation of Cross-Contamination -- 3.2 From System to Process: The Semiotic, the Symbolic and the Thetic -- 3.3 Anaphora of Nothing -- Chapter 4. Floating Documents -- 4.1 The Protokoll: Epic of the In-Between -- 4.2 Outside the Text: Creating the Catachrestic Space -- Chapter 5. Ex-centrics, Evil Eyes and Missing Persons: The Optics of Mimicry in Das Goggelbuch -- 5.1 Grotesque Surplus: Mimic Man -- 5.2 Representing the In-Between: The Secret Art of Invisibility -- 5.3 Fallible Frames -- 5.4 Aphanisic Faders -- Chapter 6. »Z. Z.« das ist die Zwischenzeit: Paralysis of the Powerless -- 6.1 Diverging Paths: A Theoretical Re-evaluation -- 6.2 Writing Apotheosis -- 6.3 In the Shadow of the Egocrat: A Micro-Physics of Power -- 6.4 The Ventriloquist's Dummies -- Chapter 7. The Time of Evil Children -- 7.1 The Spectre of Absolute Negation -- 7.2 Divine Intoxication: Simulating Infantile Sovereignty -- 7.3 Infernal Sobriety: Apotheosis of the Eternal Present -- 7.4 Contours of the Culpable -- 7.5 Suffer Little Children -- Conclusion. Concentration Camps of the Mind and the Child in Flight -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements.