His novel The Reader, which was published in 1995 and turned into an award-winning film released in 2009, catapulted him to international fame. biblio-excerptise: a book unexamined is not worth having. He is a lawyer, and lives in both Berlin and New York. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is sensual and philosophical, moving from the former, which predominates in the beginning, toward the latter in a manner both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile, as Michael describes the journeys in the Odyssey.
English translation: Carol Brown Janeway.īernhard Schlink was born in Bielefeld in 1944. Instead, he shows how the human fallibility of every individual can lead to their downfall.īernhard Schlink: The Reader, Vintage International / Penguin Random House (German title: Der Vorleser, 1995). Michael ever gives in and apologizes in fright. Hanna is taking the relationship so much so that when they fight regardless of who is right or incorrect. Schlink does not relativize Hanna's guilt by way of her illiteracy. This is apparent in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader where fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is involved in a close intense and passionate relationship with thirty-six-year-old Hanna Schmitz. The perpetrators were ordinary people who did not expose their bestial offenses. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Reader.
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Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Critics, however, still reproached the author for "a base attempt at elucidation" and "cultural pornography." Why choose an uneducated woman to personify German guilt? They said Schlink had turned an SS henchwoman into a character people could identify with.īut that is precisely the attraction of this novel. The Reader - Kindle edition by Schlink, Bernhard, Carol Brown Janeway. It has sold millions of copies, and is part of required reading in many German schools. Bernhard Schlink is a lawyer his books often address the subjects of guilt and atonementīernhard Schlink's The Reader became an international best-seller, and has been translated into 40 languages.
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