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A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140187281
A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1839024372
A pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140187243
Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
Author : Heinrich Boll
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935554964
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193555431X
At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1782270302
"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 9780749398989
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810111790
Reprint of the McGraw-Hill translation (1970) of Boll's great novel of WWII. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Heinrich Boll
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1935554832
A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810111479