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In this book, Brigitte Kronauer talks about her appreciation for her literary "favourites". She savours the aroma of their literature and tries to discover the secret of their effect. Sometimes her favourites taste sweet, sometimes bitter, preferably both at the same time. She trusts this feeling unwaveringly, sometimes to the point of fervent partiality. The affection can relate to the work as a whole, to a single book or a section of a work, without forgetting the human and economic debacles. But it is always a seductive and emphatic invitation to read the book for yourself. The "favourites": Georg Büchner, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Hubert Fichte, Grimmelshausen, Knut Hamsun, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Eckhard Henscheid, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville, Eduard Mörike, Hans Erich Nossack, Jean Paul, Wilhelm Raabe, Marie-Luise.