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224 pages, Hardcover
First published September 14, 2009
Q: Literature is known to be allowed to be everything, except to be boring. Why is German literature before 1933 - from Arthur Schnitzler to Thomas Mann - so thrilling, and why has it become so boring after 1945?
A: She has not become boring, it's just that some readers haven't grown enough yet.
Only dilettantes and washouts produce consistently on the same level.