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Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-04-28
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1839024372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 193555431X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780749398989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780140187281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2008-02-19
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1555848362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1107094518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
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: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree-generation story of a family of German architects who, in rebuilding their destroyed abbey, personify the alternate destruction and rebuilding of their country.
Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780393321944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen offers the story of four members of a German family reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome.
Author: Karolina Pavlova
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0231549113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything. A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.
