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...American readers, German author Bernhard Schlink has a huge task at hand with his new collection, Flights of Love: to successfully follow up on his immensely popular novel The Reader. Besides Schlink’s liquid prose and fluid character development, the two works are practically opposites, but Flights of Love should certainly hold its own against the huge expectations of Schlink’s fans. At its simplest, Flights of Love is a beautiful and delightfully uncompromising collection, showing a surprising quirkiness that still retains Schlink’s formalistic style...
...short stories, all of which are concerned with different forms of love and their manifestation in sexual and emotional relationships. The stories themselves are, for the most part, fast-paced and free of practically any form of superfluous exposition, which is possibly the collection’s greatest strength. Schlink proves himself completely in command of the odd situations he creates by sparing his readers lengthy descriptions and unnecessary details. This, combined with Schlink’s wonderfully off-beat characters, makes Flights a truly worthy collection. Some of the stories are better than others, however, and Schlink is most...
...other man,” who is not yet aware that she is dead, continues writing her letters, most of which are either pleading with her to come back to him, or ponderous rantings on how much he loves her and doesn’t feel guilty about it. Schlink is at his best with his handling of the letters. He writes them with a mysterious coyness that makes the man’s eventual obsession with the letters seem plausible. The man starts writing him letters in response, pretending that he is his wife. Eventually, the man travels...
...other works (perhaps due to the volume’s relative slimness—Rushdie says that he has been “trying to write a short novel for years,” and is proud to have finally succeeded), though there are still several juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless homosexual rapist of your mother’s pet goat”). Some...
...change? Must we die, like Schlink? Brecht calls death "the coldest answer." Do we keep on wrestling, like Garga? He is going to New York, but will probably fail and return soon. Shall we make love, like Garga's sister, Maria? She will never find real love...