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What is achievable now

Navid Kermani

33 political scenarios

‘One of the most exciting intellects around.’ The New York Review of Books Navid Kermani has become the leading intellectual of his generation and yet sees his role as quite different from that of Günter Grass, Hans Magnus Enzensberger or Martin Walser, all writers with whom he has been compared. Not for Kermani the one-dimensional approach, more the viewpoint of a sceptic, an observer, one who takes the full spectrum into account and always with an eye beyond our usual horizons. Therefore he repeatedly brings a new direction to national debate, pushing beyond the bounds of everyday thinking. Without this man’s voice, Germany would be sadly missing something.

It was in his hometown of Siegen that the then fifteen-year-old began writing regularly for his local newspaper and then, while still a student in Cologne, was already working on the well-respected Feuilleton, art and literature supplement at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). His reports from war-torn locations across the globe proved to be bestsellers. Alongside his high quality literary work, he remains very much a political animal and compelling reporter.

His ability to shine a light on the multi-layered complexity of current events is incomparable as well as his gift to expose the underlying conflicts and behaviours, while mainstream politics continues to see only one course of action, or indeed none at all.

This book gathers for the first time his most important political articles written over the last thirty years and includes essays on terrorism in the Middle East, the European love of the barricades, and the conflict affecting Ukraine. 

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Published 2022-09-15 by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406790232

Main content page count: 224 Pages

ISBN: 9783406790232