To Arnon

Would you take offence to it, if someone qualified your later work (roughly sketched: your fiction work written after the publication of The Assylum Seeker) as 'Unterhaltungsliteratur'?

The Romans were entertained by lions eating people.
Without entertainment, Shakespeare had no job.
"Waiting For Godot" is great entertainment.
I'd be entertained if we threw that qualifier to a small lion.

Pjötr

As Steve Meigs suggested, most if not all literature is entertainment as well. Nevertheless, I would not describe my novels as “Unterhaltungsliteratur” – ‘Unterhaltungsliteratur” is a slightly condescending term.

IC

-“Paradoxically, it’s often people with experience in the military who lead the way in warning against overinvestment in arms.”
Maybe the military know what they are talking about.

-“America’s Path to Permanent War”
Maybe some republicans have a kind of dream like, ”… somewhere sooner or later it would come upon a bleeding, fought-over frontier where the race would have been hardened and a constant selection of the best would be taking place ...”
(Joachim C Fest)

I wouldn't mind writing a Stieg Larsson and sell as much.Condescending or not.