Riconciliarsi è complicato. Con il mondo, là fuori, dopo vent'anni di galera, con tuo figlio che non ti perdona di essere stato terrorista, con sé stessi, perché quello che hai fatto non ha cambiato di una virgola la società che detestavi. Ora le persone più vicine si riuniscono intorno a te per capire, per capirsi, per ritrovarsi, per confessarsi, per innamorarsi. Forse non è stato tutto inutile. How does a terrorist deal with being released from prison back into the very society that he tried to destroy? How do his friends and relatives respond to him as a convicted murderer? This is the scenario that Bernhard Schlink posits in his new novel, The Weekend. Jorg has spent the last two decades in prison, convicted for acts of terror that cost four people their lives. He has petitioned the state for early release and has been pardoned. His sister Christiane meets him upon his release and takes him to the rural retreat that she shares with her companion Margarete. Invited to share Jorg's first weekend of freedom are friends who had shared Jorg's zeal for revolution back in the day, but whose passion never translated into action and who have since made lives for themselves within the bougeois, capitalist society that as young people they had deplored. Schlink has created a brittle drama in which many questions remain unanswered and little is resolved. Questions and recriminations fly back and forth, but it turns out that the motives behind people's actions are often selfishly human and, thus, deeply flawed. The Weekend is a potent and eloquent exploration of guilt and moral responsibility. Jorg's acceptance of a small role for himself within society is in many ways a triumph. But we can only wonder if he is trying to prove to people that he is worthy of the faith they have placed in him, or if he is hiding from his past crimes.
What do You think about O Fim De Semana (2010)?
a wonderful insight into the aftermath of a event on a group
—saguilar610
