\u201cThe Vocation of Saint Matthew\u201d<\/strong>: that is the title that Martin Krug has chosen for his novella, after Caravaggio\u2019s iconic painting at the Church of San Luigi degli Francesi in Rome. The irony is unmistakable\u2014Martin, the protagonist of his narrative, hesitates to accept a promotion: he has been offered the job of his boss, for whose wife, Marion, he has fallen on a shared vacation. Yet Martin\u2019s friend, whom he has asked for advice, proposes a different title: Ghost Story<\/em>\u2014a key element of the plot is the mysterious Alexander\u2019s disappearance, seemingly forever, in the sea \u2026<\/p>\n Martin\u2019s friend and interlocutor, the novel\u2019s first-person narrator, embeds the novella in a narrative framework that mirrors its motifs: love as passion, eros and sex, loyalty and betrayal, manliness and chivalry, art, film, and music. Alberto Moravia\u2019s novel Contempt<\/em>, glamorously adapted for the silver screen by Jean-Luc Godard, is reread and discussed as a MeToo<\/em> story.<\/p>\n Martin Krumbholz (b. Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, 1954; lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf) is a writer and theater critic. His first novel, Eine kleine Passion<\/em>, came out in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Vocation of Saint Matthew\u201d<\/strong>: that is the title that Martin Krug has chosen for his novella, after Caravaggio\u2019s iconic painting at the Church of San Luigi degli Francesi in Rome. The irony is unmistakable\u2014Martin, the protagonist of his narrative, hesitates to accept a promotion: he has been offered the job of his boss, for whose wife, Marion, he has fallen on a shared vacation. Yet Martin\u2019s friend, whom he has asked for advice, proposes a different title: Ghost Story<\/em>\u2014a key element of the plot is the mysterious Alexander\u2019s disappearance, seemingly forever, in the sea \u2026<\/p>\n Martin\u2019s friend and interlocutor, the novel\u2019s first-person narrator, embeds the novella in a narrative framework that mirrors its motifs: love as passion, eros and sex, loyalty and betrayal, manliness and chivalry, art, film, and music. Alberto Moravia\u2019s novel Contempt<\/em>, glamorously adapted for the silver screen by Jean-Luc Godard, is reread and discussed as a MeToo<\/em> story.<\/p>\n Martin Krumbholz (b. Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, 1954; lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf) is a writer and theater critic. His first novel, Eine kleine Passion<\/em>, came out in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15408,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2218],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15411","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-on-art","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n