HANSER FACHBUCHVERLAG Es gibt nur die Kunst, die Liebe und den Tod. Dazwischen gibt es nichts: Die Tagebücher 1951-1990

"Literature has something to do with life. Literature alone is nothing." The wild artist diaries by Horst Bienek As a critic, novelist, lyricist, Horst Bienek was a determining figure in the cultural business. Forty years he kept journal. It is the wild, picaresque epic of a driven and reads like the novel of his life: rousing and vividly he writes about literature, art and music and about his sex trips to the flaps and gay places, between lust for life and disappointment. He meets the greats of his time, from Borges to Yourcenar, and encounters the protagonists of post-war literature, from Reich-Ranicki to Joachim Kaiser, from Bachmann to Frisch. An artist's diary of radical openness, a large social panorama and his very personal life story.