The Reader on the 6.27

Product Information

Hanna’s illiteracy pushes Michael to exhaustively examine notions of understanding, guilt, and complicity. But I kept postponing giving it away and this week I felt the urge to give it another shot, probably because it had been on my radar for years before I bought it and I really wanted to see where the story would go.

In particular, the strand involving Giuseppe’s quest to find his legs is fantastic (sorry if that sounds odd… spoilers! Jean-Paul Didierlaurent explores the redemptive power of books, and plays with the notion that everyone can spar, find poetry in, tempt or seduce with words, whatever one’s station in life. The author, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, said he wanted to show “ordinary people who often go unnoticed. The guards took the cleric's house for themselves and locked the prisoners in the church, but the church caught on fire and nobody could escape. Not that it needs to be any longer or more convoluted than it is – once the author has set up his ingenious central conceit, it’s almost as if the narrative takes on a life of its own, freewheeling inexorably, enjoyably and even sometimes a little giddily towards its conclusion.

These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie – a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does – that his journey will truly begin . For all those fellow commuters, he was the reader, the bizarre character, who each weekday would read out in a loud, clear voice, from the handful of pages he extracted from his briefcase. The resulting substance, the narrator observes, “would be used one day to make other books, some of which would inevitably end up back here… The Thing was an absurdity that greedily ate its own shit.

Bir gün bu ritüel bambaşka bir maceraya dönüşecek ve yalnız ve mutsuz Guylain'in hayatında beklemedik olaylar gerçekleşecektir. He has hepatitis and is sick for some time, but when he is feeling better his mother dispatches him to the woman's apartment so that he can thank her properly. The author has great descriptive powers: I applaud his ability to make a book pulping plant resemble one of the lower circles of hell and to insert sections of reading into the text which shine as bright points of happiness amid the drudgery and gloom of Guylain’s day to day. With its quirky humour giving a second chance to everything that is thought to be lost, The Reader on the 6.Oh I saw that one, with the reindeer, but decided against it – just in case I’m still reading it in January! A mother and a daughter survived the church fire, and the daughter testifies that Hanna picked young, weak prisoners to read to her each night before sending them to Auschwitz.