The title character, Hans Schnier, moves from place to place, performing as a mimic and comedian and mocking the lives of people in clever pantomimes.
After spending most of the novel weeping in the bath and having coffee drip onto his slippers, the title character decides to sit on the curb and strum his guitar for a change, a common beggar in a Bonn railway station. His decline is marked distinctly when his girlfriend Marie leaves him after five years of waiting for a marriage proposal. The title character, Hans Schnier, moves from place to place, performing as a mimic and comedian and mocking the lives of people in clever pantomimes. FTP, identify this 1963 novel about a circus-type figure by Heinrich Böll.
After spending most of the novel weeping in the bath and having coffee drip onto his slippers, the title character decides to sit on the curb and strum his guitar for a change, a common beggar in a Bonn railway station.
The {Clown} or {Ansichten eines Clowns}