The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Or, How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead
$32.16
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2009
Summary
Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media.
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Heinrich Böll’s The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman’s association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105404 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014310540X |
| Author: | Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz, Kurt Andersen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Heinrich Boll
Heinrich Boll was the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Boll 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 (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or; Something to Do with Books. Boll 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.
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