How is our intellect affected by social distance?

Some find peace in the new order while others climb the walls. The Corona pandemic has led many of us to live a more isolated life.

One of the heavy names in world literature is Austrian Thomas Bernhard, dead in 1989 but constantly up to date, not least in times like these. He was a master of isolation and found strength in solitude.

What can the Thomas Bernhard quote "Isolation and the Immovable Intellect" teach us today?

- That image of the immovable intellect is like social distance in the brain. I see it as a bit like you have to sweep clean around you, to sweep away everything irrelevant, says cultural writer Annina Rabe to the Culture News.