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Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections "There is in Machado’s proseScrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zndel: a philosopher, a wanna be writer; scattered, self conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zndels Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if its coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks