On the bright side

"So-called high literature will disappear. I don't trust such partial hopes that there will always be islands where literature will be important and survive. ... Could it be that people will once again begin to think for themselves? By thinking, I mean original thinking, without someone holding their hand. If I read the works of thinking people, they inspire me to think, but at the same time they give me categories and don't set me free. Between them and Heraclitus's riplling stream, they interpose a book. Maybe at some point in the future, there will be nothing between them and the rippling stream. And they'll get nice and soaked."

—László Krasznahorkai, interviewed by Ági Dömötör