Arnon Grunberg

Translation

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Yiyun Li in "Where Reasons End": "When I was sixteen, I said, I copied a saying from a Ming Dynasty book in my diary. The translation from Chinese goes like this, approximately: If not for the frivolous, how does one manage to reach the other shore of life?"

Frivolousness is underestimated. How to be frivolous, that might be the most important question.

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