The volume of essays The power to correct contains contributions Grossman to politics and literature. He describes his fascination with the texts of Sholem Aleichem, who had brought him close to the vanished culture of Eastern European shtetl. The stories about Tevye the milkman, and the other inhabitants of a small Galician town led him to an exotic land where it smelled like "leaven, vinegar, smoke." Even as a child to have his views changed on this literary figures, however: "When I was about nine and a half years, I was a middle of the funeral service at the memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust, in the middle of one of those insensitive, hackneyed helpless ceremonies, with times clear: These six million murdered this, these victims, these "martyrs of the Shoah", as they are also called - these were my people. Those were Mottel, Tevye, Lili and Shimek. "With other contributions to the book, the opening speech at the Berlin Literature Festival 2007 and his speech at the commemoration include the Nobel Peace Prize and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 2006. Here he called on Olmert to approach despite the terrorist action by Hamas to the Palestinians. In many texts Grossman clearly resonates with pessimism: "Look at what happened to the young, courageous, enthusiastic state!"
Similar to a walk, trying to approach the text in many small steps and turns the lives of the protagonists. Richly detailed descriptions and observations create a psychological profile of the protagonist, whose torn and discarded life embodies the history and situation of Israel (both Jewish, as part of the Arab population). The text ends without a clear perspective for the participants, any decision taken by them resulting in injury to other parties, "luck" is not available.
Even as the author of this work, worked, his son died in an Israeli military action in Lebanon.
Paganini is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. It was created in 1925 with words by Paul Knepler and Bela Jenbach. Lehár sat here the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini a monument. The premiere took place on 30 October 1925 in Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna. The German premiere took place in January 1926 with Richard Tauber (Paganini) and Vera Black (Anna Elisa) in Berlin.