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| Title | : | Billiards at Half-Past Nine (The Essential Heinrich Boll) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935554182 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-02 |
| Language | : | English |
THE ESSENTIAL HEINRICH BÖLL"Daringly and hypnotically written an extended soliloquy on memory, recrimination and tenuous hope."—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Böll is an expert marksman: the arrows are sharp, the feathers smooth, the targets numerous."—The New York Times "His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection."—The Daily Telegraph"The renewal of German literature, to which Heinrich Böll's achievements witness, and of which they are a significant part, is not an experiment with form. Instead it is a rebirth out of annihilation, a resurrection, a culture which, ravaged by icy nights and condemned to extinction, sends up new shoots, blossoms, and matures to the joy and benefit of us all."—The Nobel Prize Committee“The claim that Böll is the true successor to T
. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences as a soldier. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Böll was reared in a liberal Catholic, pacifist family. She lives in Berlin. She is also a reviewer for NPR’s “Books We Like,” and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, and The Toronto Globe and
Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany’s defeat in the two World Wars.
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