In Germany after World War II, the authors of what was called Trümmerliteratur, “rubble literature,” felt the need to rebuild their language, poisoned by Nazism, as well as their country, which lay in ruins. They understood that reality, truth, needed to be reconstructed from the ground up, with new language, just as the bombed cities needed to be rebuilt. I think we can learn from their example. We stand once again, though for different reasons, in the midst of the rubble of the truth. And it is for us, writers, thinkers, journalists, philosophers, to undertake the task of rebuilding our
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