: During World War I, Otto is mobilised to the front. He finds that the skills he used on livestock translate seamlessly into the "obediencia criminal" (criminal obedience) of war, where he bayonets enemies with the same clinical detachment he used on cattle.
The narrative follows , a boy born into a cold and distant family environment. El Matarife Sandor Marai epub
: Otto becomes a butcher in a Berlin slaughterhouse, a role that satisfies a dark, innate urge for destruction. : During World War I, Otto is mobilised to the front