Epigraph
If you actually chart the amount of time human beings spend every day in fiction land you would find that it is an unbelievable number of hours – and that is not even including sleep time, day dream time or the speeches of politicians. Then I think we have to understand how fictions work.
Stephen Greenblatt1
Stephen Greenblatt bei der Verleihung des Holbergpreises im Literaturhaus Oslo am09.06.2016.