Meteorul

What is a miracle nowadays? Is it still recognizable in a world governed by the laws of cause and effect? The story of “immortal” Schwitter tells it: people lost their ability of recognising miracle, they fail to do so even when they meet it. It is the case both with Schwitter himself, who considers his own resurrection an enormous failure, and of the people around him, apparently bothered by the recently gained status of “immortal” of the Nobel Prize winner.

Thus, furious Schwitter, endlessly betrayed in his own death, chooses to step out of the system: is life seems to him (to Schwitter? to Dürrenmatt?) to be „paradoxical, monstruous, brutal, blind, short, accidental” (says Dürrenmatt), the approaching death eludes all rules, all principles. And the comic effect comes from the clash between this liberation and the whole set of conventions respected by everyone around” money, love, prestige, profession.

One step in life and another in death, Schwitter becomes the screen on which the world is projected in a ridiculous, hideous, grotesque image, a „different” kind of death, which ultimately means anything but life.