Sibylle Berg is a chronicler of a souldeath collection of humans. They react as the advertising is requesting them to do, their relationships are cartoonish and so are their human interactions in general. Ende gut - Ends Good, is a cynical parody of the everyday life and an exploration of emptiness in a capitalist framework.
It is a kind of voyeurist outlook into lives bereaved of their existence. Political stereotypes and tics, consumerist obsessions, cheap lives, all is exposed and over-revealed. The whole human show through a literary peephole camera.
The idea is not new and not bad either, but there is a certain repetition that although maybe intentional it does exhaust and ends up - not good - as the tired everyday lives it explores. The construction of the text - with the O-Tone add on through which backoff voices are multiplying the original effect of the initial story.
Although overall I haven´t been intellectually impressed by the book in terms of originality, the literary construction and the prose as such are a recommended lecture for anyone looking either to learn about modern German literary trends or to improve the level of German fluency, or, why not, both.
Either way, it ´ends good´.
Rating: 3 stars
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