THE characters in ”Flights of Love,” Bernhard Schlink’s first collection of stories, are not the kind of men you expect to be defined by love, much. A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental , elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships. Flights of Love Bernhard Schlink, trans John E Woods pp, Weidenfeld, £ Beneath Black Stars: Contemporary Austrian Fiction.
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In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable.
Because they were longer, they weren’t just a snapshot of characters and their lives, but more of a collection of snapshots.
Bernhard Schlink: Liebesfluchten (Flights of Love)
The Reader was the first book I read written by Schlink. Even though almost every story was 50 pages long, I never understood the characters or their motivations to like them, let alone understand them. A young boy’s fascination with an foights erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family’s secrets.
Andi follows up with, “What would you say if I said I didn’t hold it against you that you are Jewish. In the end, I gave this a 4.
Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Happily this collection of short stories is much better, although not uniformly. That constellation dogs other writers in Chalmers’s anthology, who dispute the claim that Austria was the Nazis’ first victim. This clipped schlnk clear method of prose was very refreshing. Stories Vintage International on your Kindle in under a minute. The discontent they feel is simply a case of boredom most of the time.
Do share your thoughts! Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Sarah’s improbable response to Andi’s traits is to say: The penalties of love, and the lack of it, are paid by spouses, lovers, children. The bernhare of a man from West Germany and his friendship with a couple from the East, which falls apart after Berlin Wall’s downfall, revealing political betrayals between them.
Flights of Love: Stories by Bernhard Schlink
Books of the Week. The point this story makes is that prejudice can happen on both ends.
Though love is the common emotion in each, not a trace of sentimentality mars the tensile energy of the narratives. Jul 20, Jo Cunningham rated it really oove it. I had schlunk read it 3 times to truly realize what happened. Yet these stories tend towards the banal and the schematic, as in “Sugar Peas”, the cautionary tale of an architect’s triple life with wife and mistresses, which gets a cursory feminist twist.
Already an enormous success in the author’s native Germany, Flights of Love is certain to be celebrated, discussed, read and re-read. Thomas needed a punch in the face and the 3 girls irked me to no end.
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I felt this is what Bernhard was trying to show in his stories. I loved the ending, because karma is a bitch and karma hates you Thomas. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful. An unremarkable book of short stories, full of unremarkable and in most cases, unlikable characters. I was delighted to find that I was wrong, at least on the second point.
In this instance, I can understand why he did so. He spends the night with her, but gets up early in the morning and leaves her. The shadow of the Holocaust prevents a man from experiencing love in “Girl with Lizard” and bewilders another young man in “The Circumcision,” whose title threatens to remove suspense, but Schlink adds a quietly devastating twist at the end.
While the father insisted that the painting was a gift from Jews whom he had helped, the son fears that selling the heirloom would expose his father as a thief. The clarity of Schlink’s vision and the calm eloquence with which it’s expressed make these tales classics of their genre. I couldn’t help but wonder how many of his stories are based on real-life dramas that he witnessed, or read about, that evolved in a courtroom.