Says one critic:
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said Volker Weidermann, the jury member and a book critic for the Sunday edition of the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, a strong supporter. “I believe it’s part of the concept of the book.”
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Hmmm. In that case, I think the concept for my next book will be 'car theft.'
However, I do find the notion of a collision between Berlin's "mixing scene" and the literary establishment, mentioned in the article, fascinating. It almost implies something of a minor cultural clash.
The girl's claims that the contextual alteration necessitate in translating the material are as effecting as any to alterations the text itself- which made have made her actions more palpable- are also philosophically, if probably not legally, interesting.
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