Name: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum von Heinrich Boll
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Zusammenfassung

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Boll

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.

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Bewertungen

Boll sustains a masterly and insidious tension to the end. He is detached, angry and totally in control * The Times *
Such is the force of Boll's conviction, the clarity of his vision and the icy economy of his unemotive prose that within this short space he has distilled a spirit that burns into the palate the unmistakeable and lasting tang of truth * Sunday Times *
A marvel of compression and irony * Sunday Telegraph *

Über Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Boell was one of the trio of great German writers (along with Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse) who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Boell was born in Cologne in 1917 and brought up in a liberal Catholic pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prisoner-of-war camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-past Nine, Children are Civilians Too, Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, And Never Said a Word and The Safety Net. Boell served for several years as president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in 1985.

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Sku

GOR001412695

ISBN 13

9780749398989

ISBN 10

0749398981

Titel

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Boll

Autor

Heinrich Boll

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

1993-11-15

Anzahl der Seiten

144

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N/A

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