“Anniversaries” at the Schauspiel Leipzig: An evening like 1700 pages – culture

Does anyone still read 1700 pages today? A diary of lost childhood, remembered in New York as a single mother? It probably takes a heavy dose of anti-present. Uwe Johnson’s literary dinosaur Anniversaries has just the right amount of analog past to crowd out the present, the narrative suspended from a backbone of world and local news New York Times between the summer of 1967 and 1968, between the Six Day War and the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in Prague.