A. Stadler is one of the most famous German writers of the beginning of the new century, a poet and prose writer, the author of the novels “Once Upon a Time I,” “Death and I, the Two of Us,” “The Charming Ragman,” etc. It is unlikely that you have read such a book in the last decade. beautiful, sad and spiritual prose, like A. Stadler’s novel “Once upon a time, and perhaps at night...” This is a book about time, which conceals madness, and about the madness that time conceals within itself. This is a book about Franz Marinelli, a photographer who tried to stop the moment and whose instant, beautiful and sad fate disappeared into the green waters of the Gulf of Venice. Although, perhaps, this is exactly what he was secretly striving for all his life...