Missing Persons and Other Essays

Missing Persons and Other Essays
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0810111772
ISBN-13 : 9780810111776
Rating : 4/5 (776 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Missing Persons and Other Essays by : Heinrich Böll

Download or read book Missing Persons and Other Essays written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of Boll's nonfiction prose to be published in English spans over two decades of social, political, literary, and cultural commentary. These twenty-nine essays, reviews, and speeches reflect the same moral passion and deep wisdom that resonate through his fiction. Here is Boll the Nobel laureate and Boll the private man: his compassion for ordinary people, his unblinking view of the tragedies of war, his satiric portrait of modern urban life, and his deeply personal reflections on life and literature.


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