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Perhaps no Swiss author since Frisch and Dürrenmatt has had such a public impact as Lukas Bärfuss.
Whenever Lukas Bärfuss thinks about the great concepts: freedom, falsehood, space, time, »Where am I here? «, it never happens in the vacuum of abstraction. He always tells stories. He is curious about the world, about things great and small. Above all, he turns his attention to people and the relationships between them: in the spheres of love, work, politics and art. »Why do authors remain silent? «, asks Bärfuss challengingly. He wants to get involved, even considers it his duty. His biographical experiences in the lower echelons of society may have sharpened his perception of injustice and cheap counsel. He knows: answers are never handed to us on a plate, we must sift through any number of contradictions to find them, and even then, they always remain ambivalent.
Repeatedly, Bärfuss goes over the hypothetical scenario of the dilemma that can arise when an individual wishes to behave in the right way in a moral sense. His appraisal of Robert Walser also applies to himself: »His literature does not ask me who I am, what I can do, what I have read or how great my knowledge is. It simply asks me: Are you ready? Do you want to see? «
»Lukas Bärfuss is the most exciting author in Switzerland. «
Richard Kämmerlings, Die Welt
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