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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz (Translator); Introduction by Kurt Andersen


Summary

Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll?s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media

In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Böll?s The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman?s association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare. Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.

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Heinrich Boll was the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Boll was reared 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 prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences 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 postwar German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or; Something to Do with Books. Boll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading de fender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985.

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  • Title The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead
  • Author Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz (Translator); Introduction by Kurt Andersen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-09-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143105404 / 014310540X
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Sensationalism in journalism, Young women - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009029523
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Heinrich Boll was the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Boll was reared 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 prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences 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 postwar German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum(1974), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What's to Become of the Boy? or; Something to Do with Books. Boll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading de fender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985.
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