| | Das erste Jahr - Durs Grünbein |
 | | Das erste Jahr is a chronicle of that first year after the millennium, the year 2000, as he experienced it. |
 | | It is not quite a diary: Grünbein doesn't exactly go day by day (skipping quite a few), and what entries there are are broader than the usual descriptions of daily events and life described in a diary, and focus generally only on one or two subjects and occurrences. |
 | | Das erste Jahr is an ambitious sort of commonplace book -- with little in it that is commonplace. |
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