Constructio II

 What Schroeder does is he does not  apply for Leipzig or Hildesheim. Anyway, isn't he a bit too old for that? He has a PhD in German studies, he has left university around the time when the so-called "Bologna Reform", a European standardization and stricter regulation of studying, had just been introduced, which means that he didn't hurry too much, he is, as I said, not in his mid-twenties, he is around thirty. He writes because he feels the need to write. He writes out of an inner necessity, but he knows that this is not sufficient to produce a literary work of some quality, all the sensitivities, on which style and structure depend, are not obtained in a few weeks or months, it takes longer, even when you're talented. Schroeder teaches himself creative writing. He does it without any handbook, just by relying on the novels and stories he likes. He likes the way in which Fauser's writing developed, how Fauser was able to utilize his experimental/psychedelic ...

 It's a strange feeling to witness the publication of certain German literary works in Britain fifteen or more years after they appeared on the German market. A strange feeling - at least for me, living in Germany until 2015. Living in Germany, writing in German, trying to get a foot in the door, the entrance door into the literary establishment. Or at least to be published, to find a publisher that shares or understands my literary concept, a concept that, I believed, had a certain appeal to the market as it presented itself around the mid-00s. In retrospect I'm glad that my two novels (2005-06) weren't published, not taken in account the money a potential bestseller would have brought me. The novels were typical for a person in their early thirties, a time when you feel the need to systematize your experiences so far, to tell others about them, to use them as a starting point to create a work of art, if you happen to be an artist. On the way, naturally, you are looking fo...