The Author's Dimension : Selected Essays Book

	Introduction
	The Reader and the Writer
	Contribution to the Second Bitterfeld Conference	3
	A Few Notes about My Work as a Writer	11
	Interview with Myself	16
	Reading and Writing	20
	The Sense and Non-sense of Being Naive	49
	A Sentence	58
	Example without a Moral	64
	Illness and Love Deprivation: Questions for Psychosomatic Medicine	69
	On Receiving the Geschwister Scholl Prize	85
	Pleading the Case: Two Speeches for the Defense	91
	On Other Authors
	The Truth You Can Expect: The Prose of Ingeborg Bachmann	99
	Shift of Meaning: Thomas Mann	110
	Max Frisch, a Rereading, or: On Writing in the First Person	112
	Meetings: For Max Frisch, on his Seventieth Birthday	119
	If at First You Don't Succeed	125
	The Shadow of a Dream: A Sketch of Karoline von Gunderrode	131
	Speaking of Buchner	176
	Your Next Life Begins Today: A Letter about Bettine	187
	On Schiller	217
	For Hans Mayer, on his Eightieth Birthday	228
	In Praise of Thomas Brasch	237
	On War and Peace and Politics
	Talking German	249
	On That Date	258
	Reply to a Reader	264
	A Conversation with Grace Paley	271
	The End of the German Democratic Republic (1989-90)
	Thoughts about September 1, 1939	285
	Challenge to Dialogue: A Conversation with Gerhard Rein	290
	"We Don't Know How"	299
	To Live or Be Lived: A Conversation with Alfried Nehring	303
	The Language of the Turning Point	316
	"It Hurts to Know"	319
	Momentary Interruption	324
	Postscript to an Autumn	328