Heinrich Böll

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Heinrich Böll Criticism

Heinrich Böll, a central figure in post-war German literature, is celebrated for his incisive critiques of German society following World War II. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, Böll is often seen as "the conscience of the German nation," using his work to explore themes of compassion, social reform, and the moral complexities of war. His literature, marked by a concise yet powerful prose style, provides a stark contrast to the propagandist writings of Nazi Germany, as explored in the analysis of Böll's short fiction in The Rhetoric of Citation and the Ideology of War in Heinrich Böll's Short Fiction.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 15)
    • Point of View in the Early Satires of Heinrich Böll
    • Two Faces of Erin: The Dual Journey in Heinrich Böll's 'Irisches tagebuch'
  • Böll, Heinrich (Theodor)
    • Paul Pickrel
    • Ironic Sketches
    • Paths of Glory
    • The Premonition
    • The Novels and Stories of Heinrich Böll
    • The World of Heinrich Böll
    • Ancient Dreams
    • Wessex Gothic
    • Obeisance to Empty Forms
    • Saeva Indignatio on the Rhine
    • The Unsaid Says Much
    • Worlds of Desolation
    • Eighteen Stories
    • Grand Inquisitor
    • Robert C. Conard
    • A Novel of Terrorism in Germany
    • The Shadow of Terrorism
    • The Squeeze Is On
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 9)
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 6)
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 2)
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 3)
  • Böll, Heinrich (Vol. 11)
    • D. J. Enright
    • Heinrich Böll
    • Heroine and Narrator in Heinrich Böll's 'Gruppenbild Mit Dame'
    • Heinrich Böll's Eccentric Rebels
    • For the Defence
    • Living in War's Landscape
  • Böll, Heinrich
    • The Unsaid Says Much
    • The Irreverent Germans
    • The Short Stories of Heinrich Böll
    • A review of 18 Stories
    • Watcher on the Rhine
    • Jeep Thrills
    • At the Fringes of the Miracle
    • Children Are Civilians Too
    • Böll—'A Miniature Dante'
    • A review of The Bread of Those Early Years
    • Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katherina Blum as Novelle
    • Heinrich Böll's Political Reevaluation of Adalbert Stifter: An Interpretation of Böll's 'Epilog zu Stifters "Nachsommer" '
    • The Rhenish Foxes: An Approach to Heinrich Böll's Ende einer Dienstfahrt
    • 'Konduktion and Niveauunterschiede': The Structure of Böll's Katharina Blum
    • Carnival in Cologne: A Reading of Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
    • Modern Germany's Master Storyteller
    • When They Were Wrong They Were Right
    • A review of The Casualty
    • A Language to Live In
    • Nothing Pretentious about Life and Art
    • Katharina Blum: Violence and the Exploitation of Sexuality
    • The Rhetoric of Citation and the Ideology of War in Heinrich BÖll's Short Fiction
  • Further Reading