A conversation with Bernhard Schlink

with Bernhard Schlink
in Books
on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 * * * * *

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A conversation with Bernhard Schlink author of "The Reader"

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Germany
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Kate Winslet
Nazi

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    1. nhdon  01/01/2009 08:40 PM Report

      I just finished reading in German Schlink's Die Heimkehr (also available in English). As Schlink said in the interview all novels are autobiographical. The interview gives me an understanding of Schlink and adds meaning to that book. An excellent interview, not forced, giving Schlink time to think. This is the first Charlie Rose interview I've seen and I'm impressed.

    2. doreilly  12/29/2008 08:35 PM Report

      A little self reflection might be in order.

      Charlie Rose seems to be totally unaware why somebody might stand by and not help somebody who is trapped in a burning barn and yet he stood idly by while his government lit a similar barn in Iraq.

    3. clarapaulino  12/28/2008 03:39 PM Report

      Thoughtful, lucid. As a European I was moved, as it reminded me of many conversations with friends in Europe, so often on this very topic. I too would have liked to listen to him for a full hour.

    4. hrc  12/28/2008 09:44 AM Report

      This was probably the best show of the year, surprisingly so.

    5. dblwyo  12/26/2008 07:02 PM Report

      Marvelous. Perhaps the best and pithiest introduction to the moral dilemmas of the post-war German generations I've heard. The metaphor implied of moral illiteracy, intended or not, is very powerful. The explicit comment about the vital importance of institutions as necessary to the protection and nurturing of civil society is even more so.

    6. mabraham  12/25/2008 12:22 PM Report

      One of the best conversations ever. Would have loved to have him for the whole hour.

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