FLYPAPER – Miscellaneous Notes

  • In this small volume, Maar writes notes, anecdotes, aphorisms from literature and the present mixed into a witty vade mecum.
  • A fine, high-quality book for all who enjoy reading Maar.
  • 50,000 copies of Die Schlange im Wolfspelz were sold!

“You don’t love because, you love despite.”

Following his much-admired style study Die Schlange im Wolfspelz, Michael Maar has now produced a slim and very private collection of notes, observations, aphorisms, anecdotes and short pieces of prose about all the things that seemed book-worthy to him over the years.

Maar writes about music and metaphysics, prophetic dreams, a floating glass, blue ticks on WhatsApp and how they would have tortured Proust; of women in Chekhov, train station YouPorn under Lenin, Wolfgang Pauli’s deadly problem with the number 137, Joseph Roth’s pocket watch, Stifter’s infertility, Fichte who casually drops his coat at Goethe’s, Doctorow’s Ragtime as a Kleist thriller, the puzzle of cosmology; the sweet habits of living, reading, loving, growing old and thinking.

"The beauty of Maar's prose miniatures is that they briefly shake up the status quo. There is no doubt that the invented is always preferable to the real." Süddeutsche Zeitung

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 18.10.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00290-9
  • 128 Pages
  • Author: Michael Maar

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Michael Maar

Michael Maar , born in 1960, is a Germanist, author and literary critic. He gained recognition with his work  Geister und Kunst. Neuigkeiten aus dem Zauberberg (1995), for which he received the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize. In 2002 he was accepted by the German Academy for Language and Literature, in 2008 by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2010 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize. Die Schlange im Wolfspelz was a Spiegel bestseller. Michael Maar has two children and lives in Berlin.