WNL 1

"And it is precisely for reasons of this boundless love that I choose to ascribe to her name and honor this brutal piece of attacking literature! Because just like her, this book is a long and winding road, and it has meandered through many battle-fields, over dark and cold taigas of sullen silence and over the corpses of both lovers and enemies... and moreover, this book is my spiritual blood and it has become the standard of quality and authenticity by which I measure all my other works, be them musical, aesthetic or literary..."