UberHuberMan":pz5gw84r said:
Ever visited the US? He was definitely underestimating you. :lol:
OK - very funny, I´ve only been in New York for a couple of weeks. But in fact some of the most talented colleagues I´ve ever had the pleasure to work with, are Americans. You know - everyone learns some english in school here in Germany, but that doesn´t mean that you truly know the language. I was personally inspired to improve my english a little bit, so I would be able to read all that remarkable literature and see all the great movies american writers and directors have made (as some of you know, all foreign language movies are going to be dubbed here in Germany, it utterly destroys the texture and feel of every single American, English, or French motion picure - plus it keeps people from learning foreign languages).
What americans have accomplished in culture and arts, is a great gift to me personally.
Believe me, I´m not trying to glorify anything here, but the first piece of literature that really touched me, has been Henry Millers work and every single year, when Philipp Roth is again not getting the Nobel Prize in Literature, I certainly can´t believe it. What are these people in Stockholm actually trying to disclose? OK - Herta Müller, to be honest I started reading her work after she got the prize, and I didn´t even knew her before. If some of you still don´t - that really doesn´t matter. Mario Vargas Llosa is for sure a very skilled wonderful novelist, but the whole world is simply wondering why the greatest living writer of our times is so pertinaciously ignored.
It seems to me, possibly that not all Americans are simplemindet. But maybe I´m just dreaming of a brave new world, without dumb Nazi-shitheads walking around my neighbourhood, shooting my greengrocer, because his family came from Turkey originally.
I hope, you´re getting the point - kind regards
Thilo