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The Stories and Novels of Heinrich Boll from the Postwar Period
Ivan Pederin
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Abstract
Analyzing the content of the stories and novels by H. Boll from the postwar period, the author notes that in the protagonist is usually oriented toward death and subject to the power of dark forces. In the beginning, this is war and later society, the state, public opinion and even the Church. Boll provides moral biographies for his characters. His chief theme is man alone, he who receives no support from others, not even among "good Catholics". Boll also criticizes the bureaucratization of the Church. Until 1963, he was concerned with the position of man as a child of God thrown into war and hypocrisies. The year lata marKed the beginning of his decidedly polemic relation toward the West German Right as well as toward the institutionalized Church, from which he eventually formally withdrew.
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53291
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Publication date:
20.4.1989.
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