Kairos

by Jenny Erpenbeck

the most important quality of a person is their curiosity.

Then, everything outside falls away into insignificance. It’s bliss, says Hans, a state he’s rarely experienced before with another person: withdrawal from everything around about into one’s own essence. A kind of inner emigration.

There are always two sides to everything. No more than two? Culpability and heroism meet under one name more often than one might think.