Човешкият и политическият срам в „Четецът“ на Бернхард Шлинк
Human and political shame in Bernhard Schlink’s “The reader”

Author(s): Simona-Aleks Mihaleva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, German Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: Bernhard Schlink; “The reader”; shame; guilt; Holocaust
Summary/Abstract: The difference between human embarrassment that everyone of us experience on a daily basis and the political shame that most of us don’t understand becomes the frame of the Bernhard Schlink’s “The Reader” novel. Which shame is stronger, which one is more human? Shame as the engine of Hanna Schmidt’s life; shame as a consequence of inaction; shame as a motive for crime and shame as a driving force of the narrative. The shame in this book creates and destroys characters, guides destiny and changes the lives of two people forever.

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