So, without wishing to dampen this blossoming of bookish ardour, it is worth considering the unique difficulties of literary wedlock.
He was hailed as a new literary star, but subsequent difficulties with his publishers have meant that much of his later work remains unpublished.
Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the German Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, told the daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that while Grass was a literary great, "he has difficulties whenever he comments on politics and is often wrong".
One of the difficulties in literary criticism is rhetorical: in order to fully lay out your ideas, you often have to claim that they are satisfying explanations in themselves, when you know that they represent just one of many equal, and perhaps simultaneously true, alternatives.
At a boozy gathering of Icelandic poets, including the ex-bass player of the Sugarcubes, Petersson discusses the fantastic difficulties of literary translation: his "Kipped for an hour in the cash-point lobby" becomes, in Macedonian, "Smoked fish for 60 minutes in the wage demonstration".
This literary tic illustrates a further difficulty with taking steps to lift the housing market.
Throughout this period of 2,500 years the dating of most literary works is problematical; the difficulty is aggravated by the tendency to ascribe authorship to well-known or legendary names.
I share the outrage of many teachers at the elimination of the choice between essay topics that was part of the old English Regents, as well as at the difficulty of the literary essay questions.
Since medieval times there has been some difficulty about the literary form of Quodlibet XIV concerning whether it really is a Quodlibet or some other kind of disputed question.
