Jones adopts the great novelist’s prose style and precise word choice, but abandons his piercing psychological insight and historical weight
What Paris was between the wars, and New York was in the mid-20th century, Berlin has been for the 21st century: a beacon for artists, writers and musicians. Not only a source of cheap rents and stimulating creative networks, these cities are a font of inspiration. People come from all over the world to let the city be their muse, and give it great art in return. Paris helped to make Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds, New York Sontag and Arendt, and Berlin has made, well …
Berlin’s influence has been strong in visual art and music, but less obvious in the literary world. The city hosts some of the greatest writers we have right now, from Herta Müller to Imre Kertesz, but they were great when they arrived. For all of the anglophone youngsters crowding its rapidly gentrifying borders, the actual output has been slight.
Continue reading...
0 comments:
Post a Comment