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Title: The Clown by Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz ISBN: 0-14-018726-X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: depressing jewel
Comment: I took this book thinking I would find a mad clown criticizing everything around him. I don't know why this idea. But I found a story of a person whose life is breaking in pieces. He has been abandoned by his girlfriend to marry another guy, this is his current pain in the story, but you can see also the wound left by his dead sister, the hate for his stupid stupid mother and the hole he is falling in, searching for someone to borrow money from. From the beginning I had the sensation Hans was an middle age man, when he really is 27 years old.I don't know if is just how I perceived the character, or the writer tried to give Hans that characteristic, or he failed to give us a correct 27 year old young man. the fact is that the world he lives in looks in decadence, as if everything is collapsing, the whole city, the whole world; it looks he's about to suicide for the lack of reasons to stay here. He has nothing and he does not know how to get up, nor even seems to want to get up. It's a sad story of a person who at the end, has virtually no one to cry with, or to be supported by.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and Very Relevant
Comment: This is one of those rare books I come back to again and again: beautifully and unpretentiously written, and honest to the core. It is a biting critique not only of postwar German society, but of hypocrisy in general (religious, romantic, and otherwise). It made me cry and it made me laugh; I can offer a book no higher praise.
I am not normally a big believer in fate. But as it happens, I first read this book after finding it on top of an abandoned car during a rainstorm. I'd just been dumped by a longtime girlfriend under circumstances not too dissimilar to those of Hans Schnier. I won't say the book saved my life, but it made me feel a lot less alone in the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Finest Novel Ever.
Comment: Rash as it is to say this is the finest novel I've ever read. It is Catcher in the Rye for adults and it's depth of feeling is unsurpassed. Boll is a magnificent writer and translation in no way diminishes his gifts. The creativity, an example would be Schnier's ability to smell odors through the phone, is remarkable. I couldn't put it down either the first or the second time that I read it. Yes, it is depressing, but there is much joy in it and it gives a reader a tremendous opportunity to reflect on the realities of his or her own life. I could not recommend a book more highly.
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Title: Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll ISBN: 0140187243 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz ISBN: 0140187286 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz ISBN: 0810112078 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 067972575X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll, Leila Wennewitz ISBN: 0810111233 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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