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Plot Summary of The Invisible Collection
"During a 50 years period, a gentleman farmer has combined a fabulous collection of prints. Now, after WWI, because of galloping inflation, his family is terribly in need of money. The old man has become blind but is still checking his collection everyday. Little by little, his wife replaces unique pieces of the collection by blank sheets in order that the family survives the economical crisis. Her husband, unaware of this, still presents his collection to his visitors."
Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - 1900-1920's
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Brain/Body disability? - physical disability

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 60's-90's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - deluded
Ethnicity/Nationality - German
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - missing body parts/abilities

Main Adversary
Identity: - society

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 1 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - Germany

Style
Person - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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