"True, grownups do not go on forever running into enchanted princesses
and the other everyday citizens of a child's world. Yet, even today,
I secretly think that many people behave as if they are under a spell,
and I often wish that literature, like a magic wand, could rescue them all:
Wake the dead souls to life, infuse them with the courage to be themselves
and to acknowledge their often unconscious dreams, longings, and abilities."

Christa Wolf, 1965
from A Few Notes About My Work as a Writer