Ursula Krechel’s novel “Dear Minister”: Women and Feeling Men

In Ursula Krechel’s novel “Dear Minister”, the blood flows freely, and sons are hate on the first woman in her life. It could be exactly the book that we need in the patriarchal backlash of our day.

Recurring thought when looking at the pictures of assassins, unscrupulous demagogues, men who keep violence for the standard setting of people: at some point the child was a child of someone. A woman could have felt luck, a moment of hope or at least openness when he was born. How long has it been, what has happened since then?