(I saw a vast ruined city, extending endlessly, in which people moved about like imprisoned puppets).
Kasack's fictional vision of a city shows similarities to Ernst Jünger's Heliopolis.
The work Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, termed an "Oratorische Oper" (Oratorio Opera), by Hans Vogt was premiered at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1955.
He travels by railroad on a mission which is unclear to him to a foreign city, which appears as strange and incomprehensible.
Back in his home country, Robert travels restlessly, lecturing on the sense of life.