Angabe der Person

What would you do as a dutiful taxpayer if the tax investigators unlawfully invaded your privacy and turned everything in your home upside down? Elfriede Jelinek answers this question with the furiously-poetic text "Angabe der Person", which swiftly goes well beyond taxation and strikes right to the rotten core of the bureaucratic, capitalist states of Western Europe, pointing a firm finger at their historic legacies.