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Group Portrait with Lady. [translation of Gruppenbild mit Dame.]
by Böll, Heinrich. [Leila Vennewitz, translator]
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New York ; St. Louis ; San Francisco ; Düsseldorf ; Mexico ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973., 1973. Very Good. 405 pp ; 24 cm. ; [1st American edition], 1st printing ; slight foxing ; dust jacket has nicked edges ; ISBN: 0070064237, 9780070064232 ; "The 1972 Nobel Prize-winning writer expresses his feelings about the people of war-torn Nazi Germany in this sensitive portrayal of a solitary woman's efforts to cope with the hostility of her environment" ; "Weaving together the stories of a diverse array of characters, Boll explores the often bizarre and always very human courses chosen by people attempting to survive in a world marked by political madness, absurdity, and destruction. At the center of his tale is Leni Pfeiffer, a German woman whose secret romance with a Soviet prisoner of war both sustains and threatens her life. As the narrator "interviews" those who knew Pfeiffer, their stories come together in a dazling mosaic, rich in satire, yet hinting at the promise of a saner world." ; VG/VG
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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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- Title
- Group Portrait with Lady. [translation of Gruppenbild mit Dame.]
- Author
- Böll, Heinrich. [Leila Vennewitz, translator]
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- Used - Very Good
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- New York ; St. Louis ; San Francisco ; Düsseldorf ; Mexico ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.
- Date Published
- 1973
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