One More Story: Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode
Book | Ingo Schulze
Germany’s literary golden boy makes a moral call to arms via thirteen short stories.
With One More Story, East German-born writer Ingo Schulze offers thirteen short stories about post-reunification Germany. Even as the stories vary in subject, Schulze uses each as an attempt to address personal responsibility in today's society. Does failure to make a stand equate to complicity in evil? What is an individual's ethical role as part of a group? How can one negotiate between self-preservation and morality? These are some of the questions Schulze poses as he manipulates the reader toward moral evaluation, burying within his deceptively simple narratives undercurrents of subtle strangeness. When a group of vacationers beats their landlord, a mystery woman in a bikini emerges with a gun and begins shooting at them. A German writer in America is bombarded by questions about God and UFOs written on napkins by a sushi chef. Yet Schulze's narrators lack charisma, so while readers may occasionally be rattled by some peculiar plot element, the emotional payoff of these stories is limited, making the unfortunate overall effect of reading One More Story akin to attending an exhibition of skillfully painted but dispassionate art.
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