Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinrich Boll
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: September 6, 1958
- Setting: West Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Memory, Politics, Mental illness, Assassination, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Explosions or explosives, Architecture or architects
- Locales: West Germany
Characters Discussed
Robert Fähmel (FAY-mehl), or Faehmel, a forty-three-year-old architect, demolitions expert, and widower. He is a distinguished looking gentleman with a red scar on the bridge of his nose. His days are spent according to a strict routine that stresses an almost total withdrawal from public life. Even his business associates and former army buddies do not, as a rule, see him. His secretary, Leonore, sees him only for an hour every business day. Robert inherited his father’s architectural firm. On the day of the novel’s plot, he reminisces about his life....
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