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    Germany's Romantic literary revival built on Blade Runner and seven deadly sins

    A new genre of German literature champions emotion and experience, but some worry ‘ultra-romanticism’ is fuelling an anti-liberal movement
    by Philip Oltermann in Berlin Nov 10, 2017 3 minutes
    German author Simon Strauß Photograph: Martin Walz

    Simon Strauss turned 17 the year Angela Merkel won her first election and has known no other German leader in his adult life. But there is little of his chancellor’s famous pragmatism in the debut novel that set the literary world alight this year.

    Strauss’s Sieben Nächte (Seven Nights), which has caused the Tagesspiegel newspaper to hail the 28-year-old as “one of the greatest talents of his generation”, tells the story of a protagonist who has grown tired of rational consensus-seeking and embarks on a quest to experience the seven cardinal sins on seven consecutive nights.

    Sieben Nächte by Simon Strauss. Tagesspiel newspaper hail the author as ‘one of the greatest talents of his generation’.
    Sieben Nächte by Simon Strauss. Tagesspiel newspaper

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