I write about it because it is part of life and interesting. It sounds very primitive, leaving the story open for the reader to imagine after the book is finished, but it is just another layer of richness you can put in a book. One of the things I feel about my work is that there is a lot of humour. The humour is the light and an important part of the book, particularly with a very dark book like The Tax Inspector , where I think that some people may have missed the humour. Humour provides a balance to the darkness.
Academic readers are just readers who bring a lot to a page.
It is like reading a reading - like being inside a particular reader's head. I read them quickly and not very well, and when requested have given a couple of notes, but mostly it doesn't feel very critical to what I do. It is nice to have reader's who take such trouble of course. Sometimes I think that when we all read we are all making sense of what we read. I often think that one of the great wonders of literature is that we agree on anything.