He has tea with some of them and a Christmas dinner.
Over time, Richard starts inviting some of the men to his home, for small odd jobs and to play the piano. At first, he can’t even remember the men’s names and calls them after Greek characters. At first, Richard is detached, showing up as a professional. All the men he speaks to have a tale of woe, men from Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria. Interviewing the Men who are RefugeesĪs Richard starts to do research, interviewing the men to find out their stories, he hears many stories of war. While he’s doing that, the government makes an agreement with the men to get them to move to an empty nursing home in the suburbs. Initially, he only observes that camp before going home to prepare the questions that he will ask the refugees.
After abruptly leaving a meeting where he could not remain anonymous, he shows up at Oranienplatz where the men live in tents. He is surprised about this oversight when he hears of the protest on the news that night.Īghast at having missed noticing the protest and with extra time on his hands, Richard decides to research the refugees. It explores the refugee experience with a compassionate lens.Īt the beginning of Go, Went, Gone, Richard walks on Alexanderplatz but doesn’t notice the protest of men from Africa with a poster “We become visible”. The book explores themes of identity, migration, and empathy. In this story, Richard becomes fascinated by a group of African refugees in Berlin, and he starts interacting with them. He’s a widower whose wife, Christel, passed away 5 years ago, and although he had a mistress while his wife was alive, he is alone now. It tells the story of Richard, a recently retired professor from the department of philosophy at Humboldt University. Go, Went, Gone is a literary fiction by Jenny Erpenbeck.
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