. . . . . . "A contribution to and exploration of a long tradition in mythology and literature which articulates the human desire to manufacture an artefact that approximates and approaches the status of a living being. The novel contextualises this tradition in a narrative emerging from the post-Communist collapse of totalitarian power in Berlin."@en . . . . . . . . "Spiel : a novel & animating objects of desire : exegetical reflections"@en . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . .