Sundays at 9 a.m. (9:30 NT) 'Round Midnight' Monday at 12 midnight Sunday, May 23, 2010 | Categories: Books |
How does one live in the shadow of the worst crimes in human history? And how does one write about it? These questions are at the core of Bernhard Schlink's new book, Guilt About the Past - a collection of essays based on the Weidenfeld Lectures he delivered at Oxford University. Using the Holocaust and postwar Germany as an example, he looks at how history affects a nation's future, and its impact on the writers who try to grapple with genocide and other atrocitites. What is the difference between individual and collective guilt? What of the children and grandchildren whose relatives were somehow involved in these events...are they also guilty of the sins of their predecessors? Can we achieve truth and reconciliation? Is culpability finite? Listen Here:
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