When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

In recent years Kluge received the triennial Adorno prize of 2009. Some new material was publiAlexander Kluged in each edition. Awards
His awards include the Italian Literature Prize Isola d'Elba (1967) and almost every major German-language literary prize including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985) the Heinrich-Böll-Preis (1993) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (2001).

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is a German author and film director. Not to be confused with Alexandra Kluge his sister and a film actress.