Plot Imperium (Kracht novel)

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august engelhardt on kabakon in 1911


the first answer engelhardt s call kabakon , order of sun german named aueckens. initial rapport engelhardt crumbles when latter discovers both homosexual , antisemite, neither of engelhardt approves of. shortly after raping makeli, native boy, aueckens found dead under mysterious circumstances. according perfunctory police report, died falling coconut. engelhardt hears project in fiji similar own, heartens , intrigues him. man named mittenzwey said light eater nourishes himself sunlight. engelhardt visits mittenzwey discovers him fraud, in collaboration govindarajan accepts expensive gifts followers eats food in secret.


several years later, max lützow, popular german musician suffering hypochondria has grown tired of bourgeois lifestyle in europe, arrives @ kabakon join engelhardt s order. ailments cured, lützow writes german newspapers , praises cocovorism. while garnering ridicule in germany, lützow s letters nevertheless entice group of young, ill-prepared germans embark bismarck archipelago, arrive destitute , fall prey tropical diseases. disgusted squalidness, engelhardt finds them unworthy disciples , agrees send them home unburden colony. after few years engelhardt , lützow fall out each other, , latter leaves island. marries emma forsayth dies tragically , grotesquely after hasty wedding ceremony.


engelhardt, abandoned, undernourished, paranoid , ill leprosy, becomes problem albert hahl, governor of rabaul. hahl hires christian slütter shoot engelhardt. when slütter arrives @ kabakon, engelhardt has rejected of philosophy, developed abstruse antisemitic conspiracy theory, , advocates cannibalism path divinity. native islanders have left plantation except makeli, missing 2 fingers. slütter reveals hahl s request refrains killing engelhardt.


as years pass, engelhardt becomes minor zoo attraction curious gawkers, among them emil nolde. during world war i, kabakon seized australian soldiers, , engelhardt vanishes rainforest. after world war ii, american soldiers discover aged engelhardt in cave on island of kolombangara. has survived eating nuts, grass , bugs, , leprosy has disappeared. engelhardt tells life story eager american reporter, , biography turned hollywood film.







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