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Like New. 1986 Knopf hard cover-1st edition 1st printing-owner's embossment inside front cover-slightest wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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New York. 1986. February 1986. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 039451405x. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 691 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gun Larson. keywords: Literature Translated Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The collected stories of one of Germany's greatest writers: the best of the incomparably powerful and moving short fiction that has, along with such novels as BILLIARDS AT HALF-PAST NINE, GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY, THE CLOWN, and THE SAFETY NET, secured Heinrich Böll's place in the forefront of international literature. Here are 63 masterly stories and novellas, bringing together the cream of his previous collections and 22 stories (some of them translated into English for the first time) that have never before been published in book form. Spanning almost four decades, from his debut in 1947 to the present day, this collection allows us at last to see complete the development of one of the greatest writers of our age. There are the stories that first made Böll famous, from ‘Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We. ‘ to ‘And Where Were You, Adam? '-searing and profound accounts of young men and overgrown children in the front lines of war, numb boredom alternating with terror, while at home their families contend with horror of a different kind. There is the group of stories that captures the essence of the strange half-world of the immediate postwar years-of returning soldiers, loves lost and rediscovered, lives struggling to return to normal in the surrounding chaos. There are the wonderful and wicked satires of the new prosperity of the fifties and sixties, with its (social) warfare that engages the upwardly striving armies of peacetime under the ironic gaze of the survivors of the old regime. And there are all the stories that form a counterpoint in theme and concern to the great novels cited in the award of the Nobel Prize to Böll in 1972. Collected at last in one volume, these stories make up a chronicle of twentieth-century experience that inextricably blends wit and compassion with a large and tragic view of life. Heinrich Böll was 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 postwar German writers. His best-known novels include BILLIARDS AT HALF-PAST NINE, THE CLOWN, GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY, AND, MOST RECENTLY, THE SAFETY NET and WHAT'S TO BECOME OF THE BOY? 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. inventory #684.
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