But Mr Garton Ash s silver nib wiggles past those constraints. The best essays in the book aretimeless. One is a nuanced and convincing piece, both sympathetic and devastating,about Gnter Grass, the German novelist, who revealed in his memoirs that he had brieflybeen in the Waffen SS. Did that taint Mr Grass s books, or his role in public life, or both orneither? Was it the wartime service that was shameful, or its concealment over decades?Mr Garton Ash brings the reader sure-footedly through the thickets of Germany s post-warhistory and through the marshy ground of moral relativism. He points to the real scandal:that Mr Grass was himself so casually splenetic over so many years about other people sshortcomings, while concealing his own.

　　不过加顿阿什的妙笔却如行云流水一般无拘无束，书中最佳的作品并不为时代背景所累。其中，关于德国小说家君特格拉斯的一篇文章细致入微、令人信服，字词间既存有恻隐，又不留情面;这位德国作家在其回忆录中透露，当年曾短暂效力于纳粹党卫军。这段历史是令其著作黯然失色?还是使他在公共生活中所扮演的角色沾上污点?或者说两者都未能幸免，抑或皆不受其影响?究竟是战时服役一事令其蒙羞，还是日后数十年之隐瞒为人不齿?在加顿阿什的带领下，读者们步履稳健地穿过了德国战后历史的迷宫，走出了道德相对主义的泥潭，真正的丑行被他指出：这么多年以来，格拉斯在给自己遮羞的同时，却对他人的短处如此随意地表现出义愤填膺之状。

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