Boll, Heinrich

Boll, Heinrich, Ansichten eines Clowns. Roman, in Romane und Erzdhlungen, vol. IV, ed. Bernd Balzer (Cologne, 1978)... 

A similar claim of authenticity could also be made for the novels of the little man discussed by Anthony Waine in chapter 14. Beginning with Hans Fallada s bestseller of the 19 29-33 Depression, Little Man - What Now , and resuming after the Second World War with the novels of Heinrich Boll and. 

Heinrich Boll s Wowarstdu,Adam (i y. And Where Were You, Adam , 1974), one of the first successful novels after 1945, had sold 800,000 copies by the late 1970s (Manfred Durzak, Der deutsche Roman der Gegenwart (Stuttgart, 1979), p. 63). Less interested in forceful confrontations with the past . Boll s novels were often close to sentimentality but also psychologica lly imaginative and shrewd. 

Cf. Michael Butler, Ansichten eines Clowns the fool and the labyrinth , in Michael Butler (ed.). The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Boll Social Conscience and Literary Achievement (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 132-52, esp. pp. 145-7. 

Reid, J. H., Heinrich Boll a German for His Time (Oxford, New York and Hamburg, 1988)... 

Pinneberg s sense of impotence does not just result from his pursuit of individualism in a hostile world of massed social and pohtical forces. It is exacerbated by economic factors which are also largely beyond his control. Fallada pays scrupulous attention to the role played by money in the public and especially the private life of his central character. One of the very first episodes is entitled A nocturnal natter about love and money , as if to emphasise that even the most intimate sphere of human relations is not protected from the insidious invasion of economic forces. In fact that particular heading might just as easily have been encountered in Heinrich Boll s novel, had he chosen to entitle his chapters. The opening sentences of Und sagte kein einziges Wort focus on a crucial economic scenario ... 

Wolfdietrich Rasch, Lobrede und Deutung , in Der Schriftsteller Heinrich Boll (Cologne and Berlin, 1959), p. iz. 

Heinrich Boll, Und sagte kein einziges Wort (Cologne, 1995)... 

Linder, Christian, Heinrich Boll. Leben und Schreiben i ij bis 1 8y (Cologne, 1986) Moeller, Aleidine Kramer, The Woman as Survivor the Evolution of the Female Figure in the Works of Heinrich Boll (New York, 1991)... 

Nagele, Rainer, Heinrich Boll. Einfiihrung in das Werk und in die Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, 1976)... 

J. H. REID is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary German Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of the Kolner Ausgabe der Werke Heinrich Bolls (zooz-), and author of Heinrich Boll a German for his Time (1987), Writing without Taboos the New East German Literature (1990) and numerous articles on postwar German Hterature. 

Heinrich Boll, Wo warst du, Adam -, Friedrich Diirrenmatt, Der Richter und sein Henker, Wolfgang Koeppen, Tauben im Gras... 

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