As memorable as The Reader.įor us to read and identify within ourselves. A collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of lovelove to seek and love to flee love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion. Schlink is possessed with a coolly direct manner of interrogating the confused motives of the human heart. Picked this up because I wanted to get beyond the tortured obsessions of Homecoming, and Schlink is so highly thought of, I wondered whether I was being overly critical. Flights of Love Bernhard Schlink, trans John E Woods pp, Weidenfeld, £ Beneath Black Stars: Contemporary Austrian Fiction.
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. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships. A mesmeric collection of stories about love.
