Volker Weidermann knows many authors, but only meets those he really likes. In over fifteen years working as a culture journalist and literary critic, he profiled more than 50 writers, some posthumously, but mostly based on encounters in places meaningful to them. Now, he presents the writers who mean the most to him – through intense and vivid profiles.
Volker Weidermann talks to international authors like Umberto Eco, Jonathan Franzen, Günter Grass, Michel Houellebecq, Daniel Kehlmann, Clemens Meyer, Herta Müller, Katja Petrowskaja, Christoph Ransmayr and many more about writing and life, their subject matter and origins, hopes and fears, the past and future, the familiar and foreign. He asks concrete questions, to which he receives original and surprising answers, and the reader is given deep insights into the lives and work of those profiled.
An extremely distinct and revealing compendium of the literature of the past two decades!
