The theme certainly chimes, in terms of dramatically echoing the Third Reich's moral illiteracy, but the way the book has been enthusiastically taken up and used almost as documentary points to an impact that has far exceeded Schlink's immediate narrative ambitions.
Although I was slightly skeptical at first, everything he's told me so far has checked out, even when it contradicts the immediate narrative being put forth by most media.
A simple device, but one that creates some very immediate narratives: one image features a young female cellist in an orchestra with an older man who shares her surname, perhaps her father.
And if we zoom out from our immediate story for a longer narrative sweep, we discover that this woman who now enters king David's bedchamber is a personage who begins her career in our Bible as something like an Avishag but will end up, in the present drama, as much more of a Rebekah.
It was therefore the psychotherapist's immediate perception, narrative and description of the situation, based on the patient's narrative, statements, emotional expressions and body language.
ONE of the immediate satisfactions of "Narratives of African-American Art and Identity" at the Newark Museum is that it is thorough without being a blockbuster.
Travelling with the US forces on their advance through Europe, her despatches from the battlefront provide an intensely personal, immediate and eerily beautiful narrative of war.
Our approach thus allowed us to look at stereotypes, prejudices and practices of exclusion as presented in the narrative of immediate actors as well as in Ghanaian media discourse.
Significant improvements were found in overall adaptive function (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and Clinician's Interview-Based Impression of Change), attention (Leiter Attention Sustained tests A and B), memory (NEPSY: Narrative and Immediate Memory for Names subtests) and language (Test of Verbal Expression and Reasoning and Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool) domains.
This makes the narrative more immediate for your audience and sucks them into the story more easily.
The results, at least on the opening day last Saturday, produced a surprisingly satisfying mixture of the linear and nonlinear, narrative and abstract, immediate and remote.
