It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.
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Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
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It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer.
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