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Literature and Healing

Literature and Healing

Published Aug 5, 2024 Updated Aug 5, 2024 Culture
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Literature and Healing

Translated by Owen Good

 

For some years now I always start the first of January with a run. The typically deserted trails through the hills are flooded with crowds compensating for the New Year’s (or other) events. This year too I threw myself among them, lungs rattling. It was worth it. Because for me running is closely knit with taking (back) control, now more than ever.

On the turn of the 2020s, over the course of three years, a large part of my original family died. The men went first: the introverted ones, the silent ones, the subdued ones, the neuralgic ones. Taken one after another by delusion, dementia, cancer, stroke, cardiac arrest. Sickness and death are curious things because what remains most with the survivors is the complete loss of control. After a while any attempt to

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