«Darling, it’s Dilius!»

Impressive portraits, trenchant analyses, poetic thoughts: F. C. Delius' extraordinary memoir The Büchner Prize winner Friedrich Christian Delius, who died in 2022, worked on his last book, an unusual autobiography, until shortly before his death. Using a good three hundred keywords beginning with A, Delius describes what was really important to him in all the eventful decades full of encounters. The result is concentrated texts, playful, thought-provoking and poetic. A very special, personal chronicle in which remembrance itself becomes art.
"Thinking backwards, memories can quickly become nostalgic - but thinking forwards can be productive. In almost eighty years of life, sixty of them in the middle and outer circles of the literary establishment, so many events and encounters have shaped me, so many political changes from the friendly occupiers of the USA, the 17th of June 1953 and the building of the Berlin Wall, to the end of the war. June 1953 and the building of the Berlin Wall to the age of Trump, so many literary developments from Group 47 to YouTube readings, that a wealth of observations, experiences and portraits can be drawn from the storehouse of the past."
Friedrich Christian Delius.