Bahnwärter Thiel
By Gerhart Hauptmann
Two novellas. In the first, a quiet railway signalman in the pine forests near Berlin lives between the memory of his dead first wife and the domineering second wife who neglects his little son, while the trains thunder past his hut. The second, Der Apostel, follows a lonely visionary on a walk through Zurich.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.