"In a yellow envelope packed that I can still see before me, suddenly the wide world came to the village life of my childhood: Heinrich Harrer's book "Seven Years in Tibet" to me than elementary school in Salzburg for the first time the fascination of a strange world and a different religion opened. And before I knew about Paris or New York, Lhasa was the city of my dreams. "
" Those who do not read, knows the world, "added Arno Schmidt clear and concise. Preferring experience was not sufficient, because only from the interpretation of experiences growing experience and knowledge of the world. Reading is a place where everyone and can try out any new light on the world.
read is in this case, of course: not absorb information texts, but immersed in fictional literary worlds. "By causing fictional us to reconsider our initial judgments about these or those people, they help us to free ourselves from our past and cultural environment," Richard Rorty writes in his essay "The novel as a means of redemption from self-centeredness ".
foreign countries and cultures - to get to know them, it does not only guide, or political and sociological analysis. Literature and inventing images of mentalities and life circumstances, and although often more sustainable than theories. Thus, the most intense literary bridge into unknown regions, but also in the past of their own society. The life of earlier generations in the literature, kept at best - but not as dead, "conserved" matter, but so that we become players.
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