The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinrich Boll
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: February 20, 1974, through February 24, 1974
- Setting: An unnamed German city
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Journalism or journalists, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Terrorism or terrorists, Germany or German people
- Locales: Germany
Characters Discussed
Katharina Blum (ka-tah-REE-nah blewm), a twenty-seven-year-old certified housekeeper who has been in charge of the Blorna household for four years. Katharina is a very private and proper person and an almost compulsive worker bent on improving herself. When she meets a fugitive, Ludwig Götten, at a party, she immediately falls in love with him. After he spends the night with her in her condominium apartment, Katharina tells him how to avoid the police by crawling through the heating ducts, which, along with the whole complex, had been designed by her...
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