Franzobel

We spend an average of three years on the toilet over the course of our lifetime, yet they are still deeply taboo. Toilets hardly ever appear in films, plays or novels. The French kings used to meet with their ministers while on the pot, while in the nineteenth century there were porters who used to carry mobile WCs on their backs. Quirky and provocative, comical and surprising, Franzobel’s new book tells the story of humanity from the perspective of the gut, while also describing his own very personal connection to the subject: his first loo was a chamber pot, he wrote his early poems on bog roll, and he has familiarised himself with toilets across the world on countless journeys.