Who is the best writer ever?

does not work Faster, higher, further – that in the literature. Also the best book in a year, although many of the prices try to suggest exactly that. Because every book, strictly speaking, a discipline of its own, denies it alone. How far the author has brought in it, is not measurable, and therefore not comparable. A good novel is as individual as a human being. And people can rate only benefits, no individuality.

With life the works of authors, it is similar. How are you supposed to create as ranking, podium places occupy? Who is better, Fresh or Dürrenmatt, Schiller, or Goethe, Balzac, Stendhal, or Flaubert, Philip Roth or John Updike? And are still contemporaries belonging to the same national literature. How to Goethe to Joyce measure, Robert Walser's prose stückli to Dante's "Commedia", Homer to Voltaire? The more you think about it, the more absurd it becomes.

But must remain because there is no question in this section without response, must ermannen of the critics, of any concerns. It is only the courageous leap from the subjectivity helps (my favourite writer is Marcel Proust, however, a very Large) in what can be picked on the basis of objective criteria.

So: It must be an author who is loved for a long time, over many generations, and admired. The of his time, the audience enjoyed until our days, but also many other authors fascinated and inspired. The has created unforgettable characters and situations that have shaped our conception of the world. The rates have been imprinted, Yes literally. Shows us with each work, and that there are more things between heaven and earth, as our school is wisdom to dream in.

you guessed it: It's William Shakespeare. Or rather, the universe of his pieces. Because who he really was, is a mystery – and also quite indifferent. Because what is a home story in Stratford, the wet dream of the literature boulevards counts against a single piece of what I say, an act, a scene, a replica?

Hamlet, the reluctant intellectual. Macbeth: lust for power plus blindness. Romeo and Juliet. The intrigue at the court. The deceived deceiver. The shimmering interplay of the sexes. The wisdom of the fool. And, and, and. Shakespeare is the Greatest, because he has added to our world a second, at least as rich and linguistically unequal bestrickendere. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 29.03.2019, 20:02 PM