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How does one read other authors as an author? Urs Widmer's book is an account of his experiences in which he defines himself as a writer in the present day. Urs Widmer tells of writers as elephants of memory, of their role as Cassandra, of writing as resistance against misfortune and death, of the influence of his own biography, of misery with women and of liberating humour.