Pawel Majchrzycki is a rail-shipping clerk living in Prague. His self-published novel Escapade purports to be an autobiography, though this seems unlikely.
The volume is over 1000 pages long and consists chiefly of descriptions of the hero, Pawel, running through the streets of Prague, chasing rogue tradesmen.
Although Varenukha was in a hurry, an irresistible urge made him turn aside for a second into the open-air men’s toilet just to check that the electrician had replaced a missing electric lamp.
Running past the shooting gallery, he passed through a thick clump of lilac which screened the blue-painted lavatory. The electrician seemed to have done his job : the lamp in the men’s toilet had been screwed into its socket and the protective wire screen replaced, but the house manager was annoyed to notice that even in the dark before the thunderstorm the pencilled graffiti on the walls were still clearly visible.
“What a…” he began, then suddenly heard a purring voice behind
The novel ends abruptly and without resolution back that the protagonist’s house, where he leans over the kitchen sink and weeps into the plug-hole.
