Steel
“He saw lights in the darkness, they reminded him of the Ruhr area at night, when the blast furnaces and other facilities are illuminated. There, where the elements were in a constant process of change with each other ...
The fire must go on, always on, the fire must never go out.”
(Ghosts like us. Stefan Meetschen)
The metaphor set at the end of the novel allows us to revisit the network of interconnections and events and the building blocks of the bracket around past, present and future. The stages of Tansmutation light up once again and shed light on the milestones of the protagonist Albert Simon's own history, which begins with his childhood in the Ruhr area and his father working in the steelworks.
The painting “Steel” was inspired by the novel.
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