The Reader Part One

The first 80 pages of The Reader by Bernard Schlink make up part one,
the story of the young man's love affair with Hanna, a train conductor.
The young man meets Hanna when he gets sick on his way home from school
due to hepatitis and she cleans up after him. When he recovers, he
returns to her apartment to thank her and she seduces him and he ends up
engaging in an illicit sexual affair with her. He's 15 and a high school
student and she is 36 and a train conductor. He goes to visit her every
day, cutting his last class to engage in their personal ritual of
bathing together, him reading aloud to her and making love. The
eroticism of the book is not at all coiled but quite explicit. The first
time he goes to see her she sends him down to the basement to fill up
the coal bucket and he is clumsy and the pile of coal falls all over
him. When he returns to her apartment all dusty and black, she tells
him to take a bath and while he is taking a bath he is watching her and
gets hard and she says "so that's why you came".


They begin a daily ritual where he cuts his last class, he comes over,
they bathe together, he reads aloud to her and they make love, and he is
home in time for dinner. He even manages to go away on a bike trip with
her, traveling with her under the guise of being his son. Interesting
idea for those who need such a ruse to carry out their illicit
intergenerational love affairs. He sells his stamp collection so that he
can pay for her costs and ends up stealing her a silk nightgown from the
department store and almost getting caught.

Eventually the young man notices a female classmate and realizes he will
not being telling anybody about Hanna. The young man manages to keep
Hanna a secret from his family and his age peers, realizing he is
betraying her through disavowal by doing so. One time he is sure she has
come to see him with his friends down at the swimming pool but he does
not get up in time to greet her and she disappears. He is sure that her
eventual abandonment of him was due to this foolish mistake on his part.
One day during the summer he goes to her apartment and finds out she is
gone without a trace. He finds out he didn't even give notice at her job
and that they had been planning to promote her to train operator. This
is how the first part of the book ends, with the young man burning in
his physical desire for his absent lover whom he became obsessed with
the first time he saw her naked flesh while she was putting on her
stockings.

On Jun 27, 6:03 pm, arewhanariki <olympiada2....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first 80 pages of The Reader by Bernard Schlink make up part one,
> the story of the young man's love affair with Hanna, a train conductor.
> The young man meets Hanna when he gets sick on his way home from school
> due to hepatitis and she cleans up after him. When he recovers, he
> returns to her apartment to thank her and she seduces him and he ends up
> engaging in an illicit sexual affair with her. He's 15 and a high school
> student and she is 36 and a train conductor. He goes to visit her every
> day, cutting his last class to engage in their personal ritual of
> bathing together, him reading aloud to her and making love. The
> eroticism of the book is not at all coiled but quite explicit. The first
> time he goes to see her she sends him down to the basement to fill up
> the coal bucket and he is clumsy and the pile of coal falls all over
> him. When he returns to her apartment all dusty and black, she tells
> him to take a bath and while he is taking a bath he is watching her and
> gets hard and she says "so that's why you came".
>
> They begin a daily ritual where he cuts his last class, he comes over,
> they bathe together, he reads aloud to her and they make love, and he is
> home in time for dinner. He even manages to go away on a bike trip with
> her, traveling with her under the guise of being his son. Interesting
> idea for those who need such a ruse to carry out their illicit
> intergenerational love affairs. He sells his stamp collection so that he
> can pay for her costs and ends up stealing her a silk nightgown from the
> department store and almost getting caught.
>
> Eventually the young man notices a female classmate and realizes he will
> not being telling anybody about Hanna. The young man manages to keep
> Hanna a secret from his family and his age peers, realizing he is
> betraying her through disavowal by doing so. One time he is sure she has
> come to see him with his friends down at the swimming pool but he does
> not get up in time to greet her and she disappears. He is sure that her
> eventual abandonment of him was due to this foolish mistake on his part.
> One day during the summer he goes to her apartment and finds out she is
> gone without a trace. He finds out he didn't even give notice at her job
> and that they had been planning to promote her to train operator. This
> is how the first part of the book ends, with the young man burning in
> his physical desire for his absent lover whom he became obsessed with
> the first time he saw her naked flesh while she was putting on her
> stockings.

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