Tag: Bernhard Schlink’s novel

‘It doesn’t matter what I feel. The dead are still dead.’ Director Stephen Daldry’s haunting 2008 film of Bernhard Schlink’s 1995 novel Der Vorleser is an uncomfortable and disturbing experience, as intended. It focuses on a 15-year-old Berlin schoolboy who has a passionate affair in the mid-50s with a much older woman – an illiterate…