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“Perhaps I only became aware of all this some time later.”
“Her face as it was then has been overlaid in my memory by the faces she had later. If I see her in my mind’s eye as she was then, she doesn’t have a face at all, and I have to reconstruct it….I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture its beauty.”
“I knew none of this—if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.”
“The memory that illuminates and fixes my first meetings with Hanna makes a single blur…I remember our meeting in those weeks as one single long meeting.”
“I don’t remember what I told my parents.”
“I no longer remember when I first denied Hanna.”
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The Reader es una novela del profesor de derecho y juez alemán Bernhard Schlink, publicada en 1995. La historia es una parábola que trata las dificultades que las generaciones alemanas de la posguerra han tenido para comprender el Holocausto; Ruth Franklin escribe que estaba dirigida específicamente a la generación que Bertolt Brecht llamó los Nachgeborenen. Como otras novelas del género de la Vergangenheitsbewältigung, The Reader explora cómo las generaciones de la posguerra deben abordar a la generación que participó en, o presenció, las atrocidades. Estas son las preguntas en el corazón de la literatura sobre el Holocausto a finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI, a medida que las víctimas y los testigos murieron y la memoria viva se desvanecía.