The Train Was on Time: Penguin European Writers, cartea 4
Autor Heinrich Boll Introducere de Anna Funderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2019
'This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole astronomical units; I am stunned by it as if by a blow. It is *astonishing* to the extent that I cannot convey to you its power' Sarah Perry, bestselling author ofThe Essex SerpentandMelmoth
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naïve soldiers, the painfully thin girl who pours his coffee, the ruined countryside - with sudden, heart-breaking poignancy. Arriving in Poland the night before he is certain he will die, he meets Olina, a beautiful prostitute, and together they attempt to escape his fate...
'His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection'Daily Telegraph
'Boll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique'Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
'My most-admired contemporary novelist' John Ashbery
'From the moment I stepped on board the troop train with Private Andreas, concerns pertaining to my own world fell away completely. Holding this impelling book is tantamount to holding the young soldier's fate in one's hands. It is impossible to let go.' Claire-Louise Bennett, author ofPond
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241370384
ISBN-10: 0241370388
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin European Writers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241370388
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin European Writers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Heinrich
Böllwon
the
Nobel
Prize
for
Literature
in
1972.
Born
in
Cologne
in
1917,
Böll
was
raised
in
a
pacifist
Catholic
family
who
later
opposed
Nazism.
After
an
apprenticeship
at
a
bookseller's,
he
was
drafted
into
the
Nazi
Wehrmacht
before
being
sent
to
an
American
prisoner-of-war
camp
in
1945.
After
the
war
he
enrolled
at
university,
but
dropped
out
to
write
about
his
shattering
experiences
as
a
soldier:The
Train
Was
on
Timewas
his
first
novel
and
he
went
on
to
become
one
of
the
most
important
postwar
German
authors.
Böll
served
for
several
years
as
the
president
of
International
P.E.N.
and
was
a
leading
defender
of
the
intellectual
freedom
of
writers
throughout
the
world.
He
died
in
1985.
Recenzii
His
work
reaches
the
highest
level
of
creative
originality
and
stylistic
perfection
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
My most-admired contemporary novelist
We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times
From the moment I stepped on board the troop train with Private Andreas, concerns pertaining to my own world fell away completely.Holding this impelling book is tantamount to holding the young soldier's fate in one's hands. It is impossible to let go.
Böll's novel blows a stent in the human heart, and shows us the terror there.It feels more necessary than ever
This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole astronomical units;I am stunned by it as if by a blow.It is *astonishing* to the extent that I cannot convey to you its power- how gradually one lies clutching the book wrenched into pieces by the imagery and by the extravagant profundity with which the soldier's fear and desire and unhappiness is felt...
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
My most-admired contemporary novelist
We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times
From the moment I stepped on board the troop train with Private Andreas, concerns pertaining to my own world fell away completely.Holding this impelling book is tantamount to holding the young soldier's fate in one's hands. It is impossible to let go.
Böll's novel blows a stent in the human heart, and shows us the terror there.It feels more necessary than ever
This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole astronomical units;I am stunned by it as if by a blow.It is *astonishing* to the extent that I cannot convey to you its power- how gradually one lies clutching the book wrenched into pieces by the imagery and by the extravagant profundity with which the soldier's fear and desire and unhappiness is felt...