Author: Jenny Erpenbeck

Cites

• Georg Büchner (1)
  • IN: Visitation (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: As the day is long and the world is old, many people can stand in the same place, one after the other.
    FROM: Marie in Woyzeck, (1879), Play, Germany
• Friedrich Hölderlin (1)
  • IN: Visitation (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: If I came to you, O woods of my youth, could you Promise me peace once again?
    FROM: Home, (1806), Poem, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Visitation (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: When the house is finished, Death enters.
    FROM: Arabic proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Wolfgang Pauli (1)
  • IN: Go Went Gone (2015) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.
    FROM: Quoted by Bjørn Jamtveit and Paul Meakin in Growth, Dissolution, and Pattern Formation in Geosystems, (1999), NULL, Austria/Switzerland
• Heiner Müller (1)
  • IN: Go Went Gone (2015) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Even if it's driving me crazy, I have to really force myself to kill an insect. I don't know if it's out of pity. I don't think so. Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to certain states of affairs and then attempting to find one's place among these existing states, an acquiescence.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany

Cited by

• Paul Yoon (1)
  • IN: The Mountain (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then she takes off her shoes forever.
    FROM: Visitation, (2008), Novel, Germany