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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.
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In the following essay, Conway examines the moral dimensions of compassion in The Reader, drawing upon Martha Nussbaum's definition of compassion as a philosophical model.
Human relationships a...
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In the following essay, Sansom objects to the overall critical acceptance of The Reader and offers a negative evaluation of the novel, which he finds morally superficial, trite, and mendacious.
Death ...
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In the following review, Franklin offers a negative assessment of The Reader and Flights of Love, arguing that both are disguised “bad books.”
That bad books are the books most widely re...
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In the following review, Markovits judges Flights of Love to be an inferior follow-up to The Reader, asserting that the collection lacks adequate feeling and depth to support Schlink's larger t...
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In the following review, Angier asserts that The Reader offers an interesting and engaging portrayal of post-World War II “German guilt.”
At first this seems a simple, intriguing little ...
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In the following review, Annan compliments the moral ambiguousness of the character of Michael in The Reader, noting the work's “virtuoso passages of evocation.”
Last year in Bonn...
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In the following review, Cheyette offers a generally positive assessment of The Reader, but asserts that the novel's evocation of Jewish victimhood is inadequate.
At one point in The Reader, th...
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In the following review, Mundy lauds Schlink's depiction of the German consciousness in The Reader, noting that the novel “reminds us of the ghostly immanence of the Nazi past in every a...
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In the following review, Hoffman praises Schlink's narrative in The Reader, but cites shortcomings in Schlink's study of Hanna's subjective states and the novel's suggestio...
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In the following review, Enright concludes that The Reader is a deeply troubling book in which the agonizing moral dilemmas of the Holocaust are revisited and left unresolved.
Rarely can a novel of th...
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In the following excerpt, Bell evaluates the strengths and the weaknesses of The Reader.
There are the novelists who cannot give us enough of life; they cram down our throats more than we can easily s...
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In the following review, Thomas praises Schlink's examination of German history in The Reader.
Holocaust literature is an overburdened realm. The moral freight that accompanies even the slighte...
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Teaching The Reader
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The Reader Lesson Plans contain 155 pages of teaching material, including:
Critical Essay by Jeremiah P. Conway
