Summer is already coming to an end, and the time has come to pack up – not without a certain frustration – the pile of novels that were to accompany my long stay in Türkiye.
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to read for pleasure. I hoped to finally remedy it during this vacation, with no other distraction than the sun and the sea, but by the end of the summer I had read almost nothing. It was not for lack of opening the Books I had brought, however, but I always ended up putting them down quickly to put on my headphones or lose myself for hours in contemplation of the waves – without ever getting bored.
“What if I no longer knew how to read properly?” whispered a little voice in my head. The idea seemed ridiculous. I love reading, otherwise I wouldn’t have studied literature and I wouldn’t enjoy writing articles on the subject as much today. My willpower is never tested as much as in a bookstore, and nothing gives me as much joy, or almost, as arriving at the checkout with a new book under my arm.
I can’t say exactly why this inability to read bothers me so much. Maybe because I’ve always considered myself an avid reader.
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Created in 1945, the “Southern German Newspaper” is one of the country’s leading supra-regional dailies. Of liberal leaning, he is a great defender of democratic values and the rule of law. He uses or has used the best feathers in the country. Its page 3, which publishes major reports and in-depth articles, is an institution. The daily also stands out for the importance it gives to culture, treated in its pages immediately after political news.
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