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"Escape" is a novel full of philosophical wisdom and highly autobiographical written by Martin Walser, a leading German literary figure. It reviews the writer's life struggle with politics, love, and literary criticism. When reading "Get Away", it is difficult to completely separate the narrator in the novel from the writer himself. They are more like each other's spokespersons, facing the wall together to think about the political struggles and literary criticism activities they have participated in throughout their lives, and recalling the lovers they have chased. They are good at eloquence and fighting, and they also learned to run away after being hurt again and again. "Every pain I suffer comes from myself." This is a sentence written by Martin Walser in "Escape". Although the literary criticism, political struggles, and the anguish in love that fiercely attacked him seemed to come from the outside and others, Walser said with the wisdom of his octogenarians: the real escape is still one's own spiritual transcendence. To achieve this kind of transcendence, Walser chose the Kafkaesque path of irony and absurdity. In Walser's plots, which are full of distortion, exaggeration and bold imagination, there are precious qualities of humor shining through.