Mind reading

Books can change a person: make them bolder, determine their path in life, help them cope with loneliness and navigate an incomprehensible world. American-German writer Veronika Reichl talks about how this happens, based on interviews with readers of high literature - from the works of Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze to the books of Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector and Milan Kundera. To understand the texts of thinkers, people look for connections between theory and sensory experience, choose fragments at random and copy them by hand, read only when traveling, enter into a dialogue with the author, leave notes in the margins and highlight for themselves what they agree with or, on the contrary, are ready to passionately argue with. "Mind Reading" is a guide to the perception of complex texts, a guide to the world of thinking, and also a fascinating story about how books help us meet ourselves.