Finally, I would like to speculate on three (almost) non-polemical (non-partisan) thoughts: 1.) There have always been writers who work in a lingua franca. The most famous of them and the names most frequently mentioned are Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov and Samuel Beckett. It is less well known that writers from Greenland almost exclusively write…
2015, The Migrants
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (2)
by Anna Kim •
Can a ‘wrong’ Austrian produce ‘right’ Austrian literature? I haven’t escaped this question so far. It seems to be a genuine ‘questionable case’ (Fragefalle), or a ‘trap’ question (Fallenfrage). The trap is always set up in the same way: whenever I’m invited to give a reading, initially plenty of time is devoted to explaining why…
2015, The Migrants
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (1)
by Anna Kim •
On 5 July the following article appeared in all German-speaking newspapers: “Turkish nationalists attack ‘wrong’ Chinese In Istanbul, Turkish nationalists attacked a group of Korean tourists during a protest against the treatment of the Uyghurs in China – they mistook the group for Chinese. The police intervened with tear gas…” I hardly find this report…