Arnon Grunberg

Syllable

Conrad

Last night after the reading in Neuss a lady informed me that the accent on the German word for cockroach (Kakerlaken) is on the last syllable. I thought the accent was on the first syllable.
I’m a hopeless sucker when it comes to accents.
My only comfort is that Joseph Conrad was unintelligible when he spoke English. (Maybe also when he spoke other languages.)