` Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one` At his wife`s insistence, upstanding citizen & artillery officer Anselm Eibenschutz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army & takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights & Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery & drunkenness
- & undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe`s borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights & Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man. Translated by David Le Vay