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The sun is shining. Andreas Maier is doing well. If you know the German author a bit, do not necessarily expect it. Some time ago he moved back to Frankfurt: upper floor, roof terrace. Really calm, he says. He has never lived so beautifully. “Yes, I’m fine,” he says again, as if it were surprising himself. You almost hear him smile through the phone. “And writing?” He continues to ask himself: “I am currently working on my last book.” The matter is not as final as that sounds at first. Because with this last book Maier means the last part of his autofictional series “Local bypass“, which he started in 2009, at least 15 years ago, and whose tenth and penultimate part with the very powerful title The devil now appeared. So let’s start.
