Underdog Comedies

We all live in a “glasshouse” of our own, knowing very little about the other “glasshouses” around us. Let’s get out of our “glasshouses" and learn more about life in other professions and recognize that we are all “underdogs”. The comedy doesn’t take only this into account, but it also invites us to look at life with a smile, because those, who smile, live longer. When we ask ourselves who the underdogs in our society are, who comes into our mind? When we think of the “social ladder”, maybe we come to the lower areas of that ladder: beggars or garbage collectors maybe, but surely no solicitors, doctors and certainly not a king or a queen … But when we look closer, isn’t everybody an underdog, concerning obligations and dependencies each and every one of us has to other people? Ten comedic but still thought-provoking stories about very different lives tell us, that even if the jobs are so much different, yet the people are always the same. As a result a beggar can be more free and unbound than a king – so who’s the underdog now? Born in Transylvania during world war II, Martin Kari’s life followed many pathways. Technical and then formal higher education prepared the author for a life with a sense of exploration, adventure, intellect and humanity. Having worked and lived on four continents as a global citizen, he settled in Australia with his wife and six children in 1981. It was only in retirement that he found the time to take up the pen again, proving that it is never too late to take on something new in life. Martin has published worldwide 12 books so far ranging from politics, novels, travel stories, biography to practical philosophy (in English and German).