Making demands on the reader
Maybe it is typically German to be “anstrengend”, to make demands on the reader (and to give prizes for it!).
But it is a real achievement to keep on reinventing one’s literary canon.
www.goethe.deDen Leser fordern
Vielleicht ist es typisch deutsch, anstrengend zu sein, den Leser zu fordern (und dafür Preise zu verleihen!).
Aber es ist wirklich eine Leistung, den nationalen Literaturkanon ständig neu zu definieren.
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