The Maserati Years

Maxim Biller was born in Prague to Russian-Jewish parents and ten years later, in 1970, he emigrated to Germany with his family to live in Munich. Now living in Berlin, Biller finds himself writing contemporary novels and stories. In 2007, Biller wrote "The Maserati Years". This story is about an actor who wants to escape the world, or at least hide from it. This man misses calls and texts from his phone, and always feels the need for either a cigarette or alcohol. The people who keep calling him are the people from the set of the film that he is suppossed to be at. The fact that he does not take any information that his phone feeds him is a matter of him hiding from his duties. Cigarettes and alcohol, for some people, are a way of temporarily ridding the mind of all worries, duties and thoughts, etc. The actor in this story seems to be doing just that. I feel that he does not like the life that he lives and so he tries to hide from it. I actually liked this story and thought that the 'randomness' of this man to be quite humourus. Although he may be able to live the way he is right now, he cannot go on through his whole life in this matter. He seems to have become a successful man and I feel that he should not just throw it all away right now. I think the author should write a follow up to this story about the life of this actor.