Billiards at Half-past Nine
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780140187243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
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Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780140187243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780810111790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the McGraw-Hill translation (1970) of Boll's great novel of WWII. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780810111479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1935554832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1935554964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780810112070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1935554859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780810112063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the publication of Tomorrow and Yesterday, Heinrich Boll was truly regarded as the spokesman of modern Germany. Boll's novel is the story of a group of families living in a house in Germany. The members of each generation - those who lived through the war, and those conceived and born during its terror - must assess their pasts and their collective futures. This moving story is the crowning achievement of Boll's extraordinary career.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780810112087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided school but lived for his education on the street; and as a young man forced to grapple with the moral horror that was Hitler. What's to Become of the Boy - superbly translated by Leila Vennewitz - provides uncommon insight into Boll's maturation as an author and as a man.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1472582748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.