文档介绍：A Book Report of The Reader
By Guo Shudan ,10Foreign Trade,
I have recently read a novel named The Reader, published Yilin Press. This novel is written by a German jurist and writer Bernhard Schlink, who was born in Germany in 1944. Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. His most famous book The Reader is an internationally best-selling novel ,which was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
Briefly, The Reader is a story about love, morality, humanity,shame, guilt and the gap between Germany's per-war and postwar generations. It explores how the post-war generations should approach the generation that took part in, or witnessed, the atrocities. These are the questions at the heart of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses die and living memory fades.
The story starts in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg es ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from famous books. D