“My muse is scarcity!” Martin Walser made that statement describing the starting point for his fiction at the beginning of his career. The interviews with Walser collected in this volume trace his life as a writer and intellectual spurred on by a sense of scarcity.
But they also show his attitudes and opinions about Kafka, about the relationship between literature and the world, the Gruppe 47, the history of the two Germanies, historic revolutions, the greatness inherent in small moments and writing as a rejuvenating force.
