Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Uwe Timm
Description: Based on the recorded memory of the elder brother tells a story of the generation responsibleBased on the recorded memory of the elder brother tells a story of the generation responsible for the Second World War. Consequently his father, who fought in the First World War and characteristically maintained a military cast of mind until his early death, moves closer and closer to the center of his research. This is not, however, a case of settling accounts with the paternal generation, but of approaching a father figure who remained alien to him in many ways with as open a mind as possible. Outright accusation is replaced here by the attempt to understand. ...
2007-09-06
