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Group Portrait With Lady
by Boll, Heinrich
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0380000202
- ISBN 13
- 9780380000203
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About This Item
New York: Avon Books, 1974. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Avon Books1974. Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Heinrich Boll is the first German to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Cover is clean and unmarked with slight wear to edges; binding solid and square; pages toned, quite clean, no marks of any kind. Leni Pfeiffer is chosen as the 'most German Girl' in her school by a roving panel of racial experts; she is an admirer of Kafka, a communist sympathizer, and, as the story opens, the lover of a Turkish garbage collector. Boll unveils the mystery of her personality through interviews with dozens of 'informers'--cabinet ministers, poets, profiteers, Communists, Gestapo, Catholics--and in this unveiling, unveils the riddle of Germany itself. Boll mixes social satire and sentiment in this life work. 432 pages. 12 mo. 1974, Avon Books.
Synopsis
In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Böll 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 post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books . Böll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985. Translator LEILA VENNEWITZ was a distinguished translator of many other German authors, most notably Hermann Hesse, Uwe Timm, Alexander Kluge, Alfred Andresch among others.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028911
- Title
- Group Portrait With Lady
- Author
- Boll, Heinrich
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0380000202
- ISBN 13
- 9780380000203
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 12mo - over 6?" - 7?"
- Keywords
- GERMANY GERMAN KAFKA RADICAL INFORMANTS SOCIAL SATIRE
- X weight
- 0 oz
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