{"id":10326,"date":"2020-07-27T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:41:17","slug":"10326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/kultur\/2020-07\/dave-eggers-us-schriftsteller-trump-satire-idiotokratie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Die Zeit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/kultur\/2020-07\/dave-eggers-us-schriftsteller-trump-satire-idiotokratie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10328 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wir-leben-in-einer-barbarischen-Idiotokratie-Dave-Eggers-27.07.2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wir-leben-in-einer-barbarischen-Idiotokratie-Dave-Eggers-27.07.2020-1.jpg 816w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wir-leben-in-einer-barbarischen-Idiotokratie-Dave-Eggers-27.07.2020-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wir-leben-in-einer-barbarischen-Idiotokratie-Dave-Eggers-27.07.2020-1-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8222;Dave Eggers ist einer der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart,&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to read the interview, but am simply ruminating on the title, the description of Eggers, the idea that he&#8217;s engaged with Trump, and the new normal of Americans joking about living in barbarity, in idiocracy. &#8222;There is nothing to be done, so we might as well joke about large numbers of people dying.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I recently finished Ren\u00e9 B\u00f6ll&#8217;s book about Heinrich B\u00f6ll and the Prague Spring. I haven&#8217;t taken the book back to the library yet because I&#8217;m waiting to finish Peter Brandt&#8217;s thoughts on his father. Brandt several times mentions G\u00fcnter Grass in connection with 1961 and 1969, and I&#8217;ve seen a book on the 1969 campaign which I want to pick up. Reading B\u00f6ll I was again struck with the question Who is the American equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=2341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dub\u010dek<\/a>? Seeing this Eggers interview I&#8217;m wondering Who are the American equivalents of V\u00e1clav Havel and Milan Kundera? The American equivalent of the Tschechoslowakische Schriftsteller\u00adkongress? Of Gruppe 47?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Zeit: &#8222;Dave Eggers ist einer der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart,&#8220; I&#8217;m not going to read the interview, but am simply ruminating on the title, the description of Eggers, the idea that he&#8217;s engaged with Trump, and the new normal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=10326\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}