Nicole Krauss Interview: We Create Who We Are

Interview with Nicole Krauss about her love for writing and literature in general. The New York Times declared Krauss as one of America's most important contemporary novelists.
In this conversation Nicole Krauss (b. 1974) reflects on different aspects of literature. Growing up in a family, that had fled Europe during the Second World War, Krauss did not have a feeling of a rooted home, fleeing into the world of reading at an early age later, that led her towards writing. On a blank page, we can be anything, she says. Also Krauss reflects upon the concept of heritage and loss, that recur in all of her novels. We all suffer loss, Krauss states, but the interesting thing is how we deal and live on with it. Finally, Krauss argues, that every novel is championing the individual over the masses, thereby having a political aspect to it. The world of literature reminds the reader of the fact, that each life is singular and thus of infinite value.
Interview: Marc-Christoph Wagner.
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[@evi-k7o]

2I always come to this interview.....it s a relief

[@priscillakhapai3623]

Keep coming back to this every now and then. Love the energy and Nicole here.. also GREAT HOUSE.

[@noahjared1596]

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[@harlanrohan1653]

@Noah Jared instablaster ;)

[@evi-k7o]

Me too.... I Don t know why... ❤

[@kamalpreetsingh1686]

This is one of the best interview on the KZbin.....

[@SplashyCannonBall]

This is one of the best interviews in just the fact that someone is answering questions.

[@BridgetNakuya]

when she said, you have this Imagination, do something with it🥺❤️

[@mikeyoung9810]

I just recently heard her talking on a 3 person group of authors being hosted by Deborah T. I find authors so interesting and in this video I just couldn't get enough of listening to her. Thanks.

[@ruairifriel7471]

Awesome thoughts. Thank you Nicole

[@leozendo3500]

Oh wow. If this were a TED talk, It would probably go to the top 50.

[@leozendo3500]

Imagine being asked a question, think for 0.5 seconds, and your answer is an A+++ essay. I'm so glad there actually are people watching this

[@nicolasdelaforge7420]

This freedom, suggested by Sartre, means that there is no environment, which is impossible. In Heiddeger, there is the environment called "society". In Emmanuel Levinas, it is the love of the other that guides who I am. It's not knowing the other - who exists differently. It's that we have come here together - I exist only because you exist and vice- versa, and that is stronger than how I exist differently. But this does not mean that the individual does not persist, but where the line is, that is up to you.

[@dreamindreamoutnow9151]

To value uniqueness comes with to cherish betweenness. Inspiring and resonating interview.

[@dear_darling]

Great interview. Note to producer, classical music interludes were distracting and at some point I wondered if I had some music playing from another source in the background.

[@bookeclectic260]

Their homes exist in their heart, I hope. And they exist still, because they did exist before. Did younwrite 'The History of Love'. What a pleasure that book was to read... Saint Ex, who I always liked so much, from reading 'The Little Prince' in Year 11 French. What a pleasure it was to hear him written about in the chapters of your book! You wrote so well and so informatively on so many things. I come from a place where no one lives in apartments, and it is so different to New York. Yes, so many people had to move from Europe to a new place, so fascinating, and yet some of them reunited in the big city of New York. Another thing I learned from your writing, and it was so interesting to read about that piece of history... thank you Nicole for your excellent book!

[@alexkazzeo6208]

Pure Quality.

[@deontaekurtz6800]

This was a amazing.

[@nevergreen9550]

I agree.

[@deannabrooks8140]

wow. she is brilliant. I will be picking up her novels. even though I haven't read fiction in years.

[@niccoloflorence]

Do read do read...I am tired of people saying that fiction is a waste of time!

[@salome3049]

Writing was a chance to create myself...chance to decide whoever you want to be...

[@vijayarchitect]

Reading history of love , i get to know her

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

Greatest 20th century novel, bar none, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. It's not really a novel, it's an initiation into other realms. An initiation into love and redemption. Noel

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

"life is only real, then, when I am". George Gurdjieff. "we are such stuff as dreams are made of". Prosper, The Tempest. Perhaps.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

"become who you are". Thomas Mann.

[@lefteris1976]

does anyone know what the piano music is please? :o)

[@nevergreen9550]

Would like to know as well..

[@QuatFax]

"Open a book by whomever you love." That's Michael Ondaatje for me; other thoughts?

[@drts6955]

Sartre (Chemin de Liberté).

[@jeevanstar22]

17:19

[@saccharineserf7316]

really great stuff, but got a little too cringe worthily phone-phobic at the end there .. it's not always doom and gloom, the world progresses!

[@가령-t6q]

my idea of beautiful

[@boyyen8572]

ㅎㅎ

[@jimbro601]

Mawkish, cliched photography but good interview

[@HomeAtLast501]

Sounds like a typical American experience.

[@nikolausgerszewski2086]

the music is disgusting.