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As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Boll's trenchant novesl cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears and suppurating physic states excluding poison into the system. WOMEN IN A RIVER LANDSCAPE brings this process to a fierce, fince culmination. . . Boll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicament of characters who seem not only rainted culprits but also victims of history SUNDAY TIMES.
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'As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Böll's trenchant novels cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears, skinned-over malignities and suppurating psychic states exuding poison into the system. Women in a River Landscape - completed just before Boll's death in 1985 - brings this process to a fierce, fine culmination.
Composed of dialogues and soliloquies from a cast of late-middle-aged or elderly figures, it dramatically portrays a terrified and terrifying world. As its characters whisper, hint, frightenedly hush each other or exchange confidences during sleepless nights, the novel's highly-polished milieu of politicians and financiers, industrialists and PR men takes on a ghastly shadiness like that of some Jacobean drama of covert atrocity, lurking menace, blackmail, eavesdropping and pitiless power struggle ... Böll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicaments of characters who seem not only tainted culprits but also victims of history' Sunday Times
'This book typifies Böll's virtues: a bold inventiveness of form, a gritty anger at the world's corruption and injustice, a warmly humorous indulgence towards human fragility, a brave determination to face the facts without lecturing us about them. As a man and as a writer, he is sorely missed' Independent
Composed of dialogues and soliloquies from a cast of late-middle-aged or elderly figures, it dramatically portrays a terrified and terrifying world. As its characters whisper, hint, frightenedly hush each other or exchange confidences during sleepless nights, the novel's highly-polished milieu of politicians and financiers, industrialists and PR men takes on a ghastly shadiness like that of some Jacobean drama of covert atrocity, lurking menace, blackmail, eavesdropping and pitiless power struggle ... Böll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicaments of characters who seem not only tainted culprits but also victims of history' Sunday Times
'This book typifies Böll's virtues: a bold inventiveness of form, a gritty anger at the world's corruption and injustice, a warmly humorous indulgence towards human fragility, a brave determination to face the facts without lecturing us about them. As a man and as a writer, he is sorely missed' Independent
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0810112272
- ISBN 13 9780810112278
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages207
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