For 20 years of my writer's life, it never even occurred to me that this would happen, and I did not miss it. Had the political situation not changed, I would simply have gone on writing as before. I don't think life owes me anything. By the way, it is a great illusion that freedom is conducive to creativity and that censorship only destroys it. It just changes it.
Some flowers bloom well in full light, others in the shade.
That mixture of illusion, self-deception, prejudice and confusion solves nothing and shields us from nothing. I am extremely satisfied with it and very grateful to Neil Bermel. I know very well that I am a verbal author, and thus easy prey for poor translators. Mr Bermel was wonderful. He worked very conscientiously.