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On a Day Like This.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| August 04, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The main characters in the novels of this Swiss writer can seem aloof to the point of being anesthetized, and their stories often begin with a moment of rupture. Andreas is a forty-something German teacher in Paris whose life consists of monotonous routines and impersonal encounters. "Emptiness was the normal state of things," Stamm writes. Yet when he develops a bad cough he decides not to wait for ...

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