Heinrich Böll

The Train Was on Time is the first published novel by German author Heinrich Böll. It dates from 1949. The book centres on the story of a German soldier, Andreas, taking a train from Paris to Przemyśl. The story focuses on the experience of German soldiers during the Second World War on the Eastern Front where …

The Bread of Those Early Years is a 1955 novel by the West German writer Heinrich Böll. It was adapted into a 1962 film with the same title.

Lidande Eros är en roman av Heinrich Böll från 1953. Romanens berättare är en kringflackande familjefar i yngre medelåldern strax efter andra världskriget. Mannen drivs av en längtan bort från det kyffe där han bor med sin fru och sina små barn, och bort från familjens krav. Arbetslösheten och penningbristen tär på …

In IRISH JOURNAL, Heinrich Boll the celebrated novelist becomes Heinrich Boll the relatively obscure traveler, touring Ireland in the mid-1950s with his wife and children. While time may stand still in Irish pubs, Boll does not, and his descriptions of his various travels throughout Ireland are as vivid and compelling …