Arnon Grunberg

Able

Willing

Owen Hatherley reviewed "Grand Hotel Abyss" by Stuart Jeffries, good title by the way.

'Marcuse’s attitude was different. Already, work such as Eros and Civilisation showed a utopian optimism that contrasted with the sombre tone of Adorno’s late writing; and when the student movement arrived, he told Adorno: “I am willing to come to terms with patricide, even though it hurts sometimes.”'

Read the review here.

This is the spirit of every revolutionary movement and of every ambitious young man: willing to come to terms with patricide.

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