It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.