Word: castiletz
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...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...
...case so intrigues Castiletz that he sets out to solve it himself. He talks to people who remember the sister, to the police inspector who handled the case, to one of the former suspects. The investigation occupies all of his weekends and gradually all of his evenings as well. His neglected wife drifts into an affair with a handsome ski instructor. But to Castiletz it soon seems as if the events on the night of the murder are the only reality; that "everything else during the long subsequent years had in fact been piled-up rubble concealing his true life...
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