These are not sweet, sentimental stories since the protagonists are German men, mostly lawyers or law students, that view their emotions with cool, analytic minds. The stories are about communication problems, love that has lost passion, regrets, and midlife crisis mentalities.Ī few stories deal with the way that people regard younger Germans (who were not alive during World War II) because the Holocaust had such deva 'Flights of Love' is a collection of seven short stories that center on love.
'Flights of Love' is a collection of seven short stories that center on love. What is increasingly exposed, though, are the supporting mechanisms that too frequently serve to reinforce, rather than challenge, our assumptions with their didactic contrivance.David Vincent, .uk. There can be no doubting Schlink's storytelling acumen or his undertaking to tackle the complicated identity of modern Germany. In keeping with his legal training, he discerns lines of attack more suited to a drama, or perhaps a courtroom drama, than fiction. Schlink too often presents scenarios rather than scenes, more intent on dislocated dilemma than language.
Less successfully, 'The Circumcision' sees the pretext of a German man and his New York Jewish girlfriend to ponder huge, chewy rhetoric on the problems of reconciling the past, almost absentmindedly concocting an improbable denouement. 'The Other Man' presents a widower corresponding with his dead wife's unwitting lover, and finding comfort through acquaintance.
In the book's centerpiece, 'Sugar Peas,' architect and amateur painter Thomas finds that his trio of lovers avenge themselves on his profligacy after he is left wheelchair-bound by an accident. The pick of the seven, the opening 'Girl with Lizard,' depicts a remote male character who fixates on a painting of his father's, which he is to discover, like his father, has a familiarly unsavory past, and which he is impelled to exorcise. The pick of the seven, the opening 'Girl with Lizard,' depicts a remote male character who fixates on a painting of his father's, which he is to dis Flights of Love sees Bernhard Schlink build on the success of his international bestselling debut novel, The Reader, with a clutch of short stories that tell of the variety of love, distilled into seven splinters of narrative. Bernhard Schlink Liebesfluchten Pdf File Average ratng: 8,5/10 5299 reviewsįlights of Love sees Bernhard Schlink build on the success of his international bestselling debut novel, The Reader, with a clutch of short stories that tell of the variety of love, distilled into seven splinters of narrative.
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