Faculty of Arts School of Historical Studies

Free public lecture

On the immorality of Bernard Schlink’s The Reader

Professor Haim Marantz
Ben Gurion University of the Negev

It is Marantz’s view that The Reader by Bernard Schlink is an immoral novel as it tries to justify the morality of those people who took part in the Holocaust, indeed all generations after the Third Reich.

Date:
Wednesday 9th April 2008
Time:
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location:
Theatre C
Old Arts Building
University of Melbourne
Enquiries:
Sarah Barzel
Centre for Jewish History and Culture
School of Historical Studies
Tel: (+61 3) 8344 8989
Email: sbarzel@unimelb.edu.au
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