Vtech Learning Toy, Babies & Kids, Infant Playtime on Carousell Martin Heidegger's grouch. Matthias Argui, Yan Marchand Martin Heidegger's Grouch Translated by Anna Street Hardcover, 64 pages We follow a scared little beetle named Martin trying to find his way through the dead body of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. As Martin the beetle treks along Martin the corpses skeleton, he asks himself why do I exist?wondering as he wanders about the condition of being in the face of death and about the meaning of his own existence. On his way to find answers to these existential questions, Martin crosses paths with a lavish snail named Epicure, a frenzied community of ants subjected to grueling working conditions, a serene bed of worms, and even the ghost of the philosopher himself. Through his conversations with these creeping, crawling interlocutorseach of whom shares their personal conception of existencelittle Martin is ultimately released from his existential crisis.