The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada

The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada is the story of an outsider a lonely misunderstood young artist who chronicles all the unpleasant things that happen to him in life. Abandoned by his parents brought up be a tyrannical aunt bullied at school ostracized by the local community nearly everyone Jacob comes into contact with takes an instant (often) violent dislike towards him. Like Job from the bible he is beaten and abused manipulated and taken advantage of. Life people fate circumstance force him deeper into his shell deeper into the cocoon of his fledgling artistic work where he records every significant event in sketches paintings and short-form verse documenting his own unique eminently miserable human experience. At heart he longs for companionship intimacy love but is dealt so many blows he is too scared to reach out to anybody. On the fringes of society he devotes himself solely to his art.