. . . [A] meter-high fence is not a sign of strength but a sign
of fear. A sign of the fear of being questioned. Fear of loss,
poverty, and death. That is our fear, and it is no different
from the fear of the people on the other side of the fence. . . .
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
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Quoted from Jenny Erpenbeck, "Blind Spots: The 2018 Puterbaugh Keynote" in World Literature Today, July-August 2018, page 63
Jenny Erpenbeck, Award-Winning German Writer, Opera Director (Erpenbeck's most recent novel is Go, Went, Gone (2015; New Directions Reprint, 2017), awarded the Thomas Mann Prize and the Permio Strega Europeo.)
James Wood, "A Novelist's Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis", The New Yorker, September 25, 2017 (This article is about Go, Went, Gone, as translated by Susan Bernofsky.)
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