![]() ![]() Does he mean to do actual research? Not really. Richard sees the events on television he'd scarcely noticed in person, but decides to draw up a plan for a sociological inquiry, and uses his emeritus status to get the authority to pursue it. He passes, without at first noticing, a protest in a Berlin plaza a group of African refugees are living in the plaza, Occupy Wall Street-style, trying to draw attention to their plight, and maybe acquire residency and work permits. ![]() At the beginning of the novel he's just wrapped up all the rituals of retirement. He had a mistress, which made the marriage not an entire success, but now she's gone, too. ![]() Widowed and childless, he has friends, but at first even they seem to be drifting away. The protagonist of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Go, Went, Gone is Richard, a retired professor of classics who spent most of his professional career at a university in East Berlin. ![]()
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