We Would Rather Dream It All Than Say It
A Conversation with Michael Albus
Martin Walser will be 95 years old on 24 March 2022. This book of conversations with Michael Albus – including participation by Arnold Stadler – was created at the author's request. An exciting undertaking: What does an equally recognised and controversial German writer dream about when the great battles of his life have been fought? Martin Walser talks about what still matters and what no longer matters after a long and fulfilled life. A selection of quotes from Walser's texts link the interview and his life's work. In an extensive postscript, Arnold Stadler – with whom Walser speaks Alemannic when they are by themselves – pays tribute to the older man from his own poetic perspective: "Every true poet has an injury, a wound from which it continues to bleed. As a memory". (Arnold Stadler)
- Walser's exclusive conversation with Michael Albus
- With an essay by Arnold Stadler
