In this novel, Bernhard Schlink varies the motif used by Michel de Montaigne in his first essay: To philosophize is to learn to die. The late sixteenth-century French philosopher was a man of multiple and very different careers, much like Schlink today. And both return to this fundamental problem with a similar intention, namely to better understand and enjoy life before it more intensively in the light of death that is certain for us all.
New novel by Bernhard Schlink “Late Life”: What death teaches us – culture
