Max Frisch is one of the authors whose works I have read almost all of. The day before yesterday, I came across Montauk - a little book I've been meaning to buy for a long time. Now I've given it to myself for Christmas. Christmas, or more precisely my Christmas vacation, will be the time for me to finally realize my long-cherished plan: to create my own book.

My first volume will be a collection of lyrics, poems and aphorisms - nothing major, more of an introduction to the second follow-up volume, which will contain prose. Since we are here among ourselves, I am happy to tell you my working title and the background to it: blau-pause / zimmerlautstärke.

Zimmerlautstärke might sound familiar to some of you, especially the more well-read or those who have been following me for a while. It is the title of a book of poems by Rainer Kunze, one of the great writers of our time. If you look into the background of Kunze's work, you will certainly recognize connections and correlations.

I think that we are living in a very interesting time. We are witnessing the old passing away and the new emerging - a kind of spiritual fall of the Berlin Wall, comparable to that of 1989. If we recognize the signs of the times and seize the opportunities, we can get the best out of ourselves. The literature of this transitional period will perhaps later be regarded as a historical document - not all of it, but the really good works certainly will.

I leave it to fate to decide which category my volume will belong to. The important thing is to write and put into words what seems significant to you. Society will form its own judgment, and literature plays an essential role in shaping opinion.

Max Frisch has long been in the Olympus of unforgotten authors. Not everyone may see it that way, but fate has its own ways. I will be reading Montauk over the holidays.

And what about you? What are you reading between the years?

S.

The link to the original German text: https://www.ganjingworld.com/s/4Zx4MqQljn