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BÖll, Heinrich - hīnˈrĭkh böl, 1917–85, German novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Böll presents a critical, antimilitarist view of modern society in a collection of masterful short stories, Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa··· (1950; tr. Traveller, If You Come to Spa…, 1956), and the novels Wo warst du, Adam? (1951;

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Billiards at Half-Past Nine » Read Now
by Heinrich Boll. 280 pgs.

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...at -- half-past nine HEINRICH BOLL Translated from the German McGraw-Hill...number I gave you was the Prince Heinrich Hotel?" She said not a word...she had identified as...
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The Unguarded House » Read Now
by Heinrich Boll, Mervyn Savill. 255 pgs.

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The Rhetoric of Citation and the Ideology of War in Heinrich Boll's Short Fiction, in Germanic Review » Read Now
by Russell A. Berman. 6 pgs.

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...their formal construction. Early short stories by Heinrich Boll provide particularly useful examples. Generally read...Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1970 ), 7:9. 5. Heinrich...
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European Memories of the Second World War (Chap. 1 "Private and Public Filters: Memories of War in Heinrich Boll's Fiction and Nonfiction") » Read Now
by Charles Burdett, Claire Gorrara, Helmut Peitsch. 338 pgs.

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...status, such as Primo Levi and Heinrich Boll, but there are also essays on...works by Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll with having anticipated, by two...FILTERS: MEMORIES OF...
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The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust (Chap. One "The First Postwar Decade: Heinrich Boll and Wolfgang Koeppen") » Read Now
by Ernestine Schlant. 277 pgs.

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Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as...
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Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Learned and exacting, Schlant's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.
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The Obsession to Destroy Monuments: Mishima and Boll, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Reiko Tachibana Nemoto. 20 pgs.

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...after Mishimas sensational work, Heinrich Boll published a novel called Billard...Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. Boll, Heinrich. Billard um Halbzehn. Munchen...McGraw...
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An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature ("Heinrich Boll" begins on p. 69) » Read Now
by Sven Birkerts. 430 pgs.

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Group 47: The Reflected Intellect (Discussion of Heinrich Boll begins on p. 40) » Read Now
by Siegfried Mandel. 232 pgs.

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...Gunter Herburger, Gunter Grass, Heinrich Boll, Peter Handke, and Richter...many newcomers in 1951 was Heinrich Boll b. 1917 with his story--in...Nobel Prize for Literature...
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Contemporary European Novelists (Discussion of Heinrich Boll begins on p. 79) » Read Now
by Siegfried Mandel. 176 pgs.

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...Mr. Mandel is particularly good on the subject of Heinrich Boll and his "major novel," Billiards at Half-Past Nine, that...generations. Mr. Mandel refuses to see much...