Raoul Schrott reads from "Zeitgeist"

What is the Zeitgeist? How did it come about? How does it spread and shape societies? In what ways do we yield to it or resist it? And what impact does it have on literature? In his essay, Raoul Schrott presents an analysis of our present that is as surprising as it is insightful.

As a counterpoint, in his poems he portrays us through portraits of individual people: whether young or old, amid apocalyptic moods and promises of happiness, in the certainties of each individual as well as in their disorientation in the face of times that have become disparate.