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I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

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When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I am pulling on those threads. The more I pull, the more it comes unraveled.

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There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.

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My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning can be read through the writing.

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The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

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The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

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Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

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I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: May 18th, 1944

Died: December 14th, 2001

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