These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly visiting bars and brothels; stories of children rendered with a simplicity that belies their emotional impact; and stark vignettes of people struggling to re-make their lives against the ruined landscape of war-devastated towns and villages. Representing Boll's youthful beginnings, this collection introduces the themes that inform his life-long literary accomplishments and the wit, intelligence, and lyricism that made Boll one of contemporary Europe's most acclaimed writers.

Children Are Civilians Too (Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Vennewitz, Leila

BÖLL, HEINRICH

Literary

Penguin Group USA

From review - "One of the things about the European avant-garde literature movement in the middle of the last century that was most influential was the inversion technique. Most commonly used with mysteries, the authors would expose pieces of the mystery commonly left until the end of most novels, and then extract the mystery itself from things normally given early on in the story. Heinrich Böll was one of the best at this game, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is his best-known work of this sort."

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

United States

Penguin Classics

Gesine and her daughter, Marie, emigrate from West Germany to New York City, where they are caught up in the political events of 1968

Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (English and German Edition)

Johnson, Uwe

Arndt, Walter

Harcourt

This book is a powerful introduction to the work of a German writer who possesses both the imaginative vigor of Gunter Grass and the humanistic insight of Heinrich Boll. First publisehd in Germany in 1962 under the title Lebenslaufe, Case Histories is a collection of eleven stories that recount the lives of various men and women who have somehow lost contact with their humanity and, therefore, their lives. Taken together, these stories offer a picture of the German people between 1933 and the late 1950s--during and immediately following World War II. As we come to know the characters in these stories--a concentration camp guard, two camp inmates who once were lovers, friends, and relatives gathered at the funeral of an old lesbian--we recognize, as in all good fiction, our contemporaries and ourselves. For beyond all else, Kluge's characters are unavoidably and unmistakably human.

Case Histories (Modern German Voices Series) (English and German Edition)

Kluge, Alexander

Holmes & Meier Pub

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead was written by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's most prolific postwar writers. Although Boll insisted that his characters were compositions and not psychological creations, they do have psychological reality. In this novel he tells the story of pretty, bright, young Katharina Blum, who becomes the center of intrigue with a big city newspaper when at a carnival party she falls in love with a young radical lawbreaker on the run from the police.

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Transaction Large Print Books)

Contemporary

Transaction Pub Large Print

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