A collection of Uwe Timm’s lectures on poetics at the University of Paderborn in the winter of 1991/1992.
When Uwe Timm writes about writing, the literary discourse, which had become so abstract over the decades, returns to its roots. Timm takes us with him into the everyday as a condition for literature. For example, what does the work desk of a writer look like? What does it mean to write by hand, on a typewriter or on a computer? What happens when the abbreviation “o.k.” becomes acceptable in literature and what happens when a toothpick wants to become a story? And the most elementary of all questions: Storytelling – does it still exist?
