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Irish Journal (The Essential Heinrich Boll) (Paperback)

Irish Journal (The Essential Heinrich Boll) By Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz (Translated by), Hugo Hamilton (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz (Translated by), Hugo Hamilton (Introduction by)
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A 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.

About the Author


In 1972, Heinrich Böll became 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 post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books. 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.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781935554196
ISBN-10: 1935554190
Publisher: Melville House
Publication Date: May 31st, 2011
Pages: 128
Language: English
Series: The Essential Heinrich Boll

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