Group Portrait With Lady (The Essential Heinrich Boll) - Softcover

Boll, Heinrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935554336 ISBN 13: 9781935554332

Publisher: Melville House Pub, 2011

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Review:

"His most grandly conceived [novel]...the magnum opus which so far crowns his work."
--The Nobel Prize Committee

"Extraordinary ... A powerful work of the imagination."
--The Los Angeles Times

"Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique."
--Joseph Heller

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melville House Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935554336
• ISBN 13: 9781935554332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452