Volume 45, Number 5 · March 26, 1998
Modern Love
By D.J. Enright
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Pantheon, 218 pp., $21.00
Rarely can a novel of this modest size have made such demands on its readers. The more slowly and carefully you follow the narrative, the more tortuous, unsettled, and uncertain or ambivalent it grows, and the more difficult to epitomize. Such, we suppose, is to be expected of what is concurrently a small, personal attempt at sustained moral accounting and a large, public one.
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