on the first stage this is a satire of the public life and especially the livings of the 'content creators' in the year 1928 in Paris e.g. all over the world. written in a fast elliptical language of the great city with the tools and wording of the expressionism.

on the back stage Mehring dissolves all the grotesques in the lawful tides of capitalism. and because of his kind of (media) analysis he ends with a modern twist: you can't differentiate in the capitalist state between a revolution (or at least a riot) and the next Hollywood production.

so if you are interested in a seemingly outdated books which surprises you ...