You water, you gooseflesh. Ten commandments about the novel in an era of media redundance
Writer: Aris Fioretos
The text was written for the European Literature Days 2012 and presented on September 21, 2012 at Schloss Spitz.
Is it permissible to question whether Europe has only one soul or not more of many, and is it not time to consider the cultivation of diversity, and thus of differences, as part of the European heritage? And: What role does the novel play as a guidepost of its time?