Started reading for the challenge this week with A minute's silence (Schweigeminute, 2008) by Siegfried Lenz. 5 stars A short story about and told by a 18 old student (perhaps gymnasium? almost positive not college) Christian who has a affair with his English teacher Stella Petersen. The story starts at her funeral and jumps back and forth between the ceremony and Christian memories of his time with her shortly before her passing. The writing style and narrative structure are great! very close to Hemmingway's short phrases, mixed with Faulkers writing in the The Sound and The Fury, jumping between the present and the past without de-marking the change (though far far less confusing). Although you know how the story "ends", it's compelling and stings all the same as you get to the final pages
5 stars
A short story about and told by a 18 old student (perhaps gymnasium? almost positive not college) Christian who has a affair with his English teacher Stella Petersen. The story starts at her funeral and jumps back and forth between the ceremony and Christian memories of his time with her shortly before her passing. The writing style and narrative structure are great! very close to Hemmingway's short phrases, mixed with Faulkers writing in the The Sound and The Fury, jumping between the present and the past without de-marking the change (though far far less confusing). Although you know how the story "ends", it's compelling and stings all the same as you get to the final pages