Rumpelstilzchen
Former Member
One thing I have to say, though, since it does not take much time. He is one of the most impressive living writers I have encountered in my life so far. By now, after having read practically everything available in English and German translation, around 9 longer and smaller works/books, he should be around the very top of my personal living favorites. I am absolutely flabbergasted realizing the diversity of topics covered by him (from his early deeply pessimistic (but also darkly funny) and universal parables strongly influenced by the downfall of the communist states to his reflective, contemplative and meditative later work influenced by Eastern culture, bringing both East and West together in his last long work Seiobo, where the wholeness and interrelation of nature, art and beauty are captured in a unique way), the metaphysical insights, his never ending playfulness in literary terms, his endless striving for the ultimate, all-encompassing sentence, his willingness to engage and collaborate with artists from different art forms like film (Bela Tarr's masterworks of film-making), theatre or painting (the truly unique project of Animalinside). I would never claim that his works are flawless, though. Nevertheless I am personally so much astonished about this artist. For me it is clear that he is one of the major writers working today. He is one of the few dozen writers, who combine writing, inventiveness, creativity and insight on a consistently sophisticated level, a writer, who at the same time is fully aware of the inherent limitations of words and human perception and understanding in general.
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do not tempt me, I tell you 
