"A bold, galvanizing hybrid of fiction, interview, film theory, German history, scientific inquiry, and his cosmology of cinema."
- KGB Bar Book Review,
"Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies—along with Pasolini—what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist....Essential, brilliant."
- Susan Sontag,
"Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers."
- W.G. Sebald,