Review of Sky Without Stars

It couldn't be true that two lovers achieved the miracle referred to by Plato in The Banquet, that they took for themselves the crown of spring announcing the outbreak of romance in new times after the two terrible wars; no, that's why Käutner blames ourselves, human beings in general, when Carl shoots Mischa, the young Russian, we sabotage our own future out of the same prejudices that we tend to disqualify the enemies we hate; no, it could not, how could it happen that Germany and Germany loved each other and were happy, that would have meant that we learned the lesson of the two wars; That miracle could not be true, because that invisible barrier of animosity between axes, and anger between the West and the East crystallized in a wall erased the natural with the atavistic insidiousness of the artificial and invented construct that could be harder; Käutner lavishes an unfortunate anecdote between Anna and Carl, of so many that had to be forged in the pale and ill-fated crucible of the cold war in the world;