The Reader

中文名：
生死朗读
作者：
本哈德·施林克 Bernhard Schlink
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生死朗读(The Reader)简介：

Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"

The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence.

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。
　　伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？
　　战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他••••••
　　3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。
　　电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。
　　不久后一天，汉娜突然不辞而别，8年后再次见到汉娜的时候，她成了一名站在法庭上的纳粹罪犯，她并没有像其他一同被指认的罪犯一样，否认自己的罪行，而是坚定异常地坦诚一切。直到审判席上，汉娜不愿提笔在白纸上写下黑字做笔迹比较，并因此背负罪名被判终身监禁时，伯格终于明白了原因，明白了汉娜为什么不看他的旅行计划，为什么会在拿到菜单时神色紧张，为什么总是不厌其烦地听他朗读，汉娜是一个根本不会认字读书的文盲，但她拒绝向任何人袒露自己的缺陷，即使替他人受过而终身监禁，也要隐藏她是文盲这个秘密。伯格说：因为她感到羞愧。伯格是可以说出真相替她减轻罪与罚的，但却最终选择了和汉娜一样，用生命去捍卫这个卑微的秘密……
　　为了守护秘密，你会走多远？

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