What's to Become of the Boy: Or, Something to Do with Books (European Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810112086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 82 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prison camp. In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books. Born in Cologne, in
It is both an essential autobiography of the Nobel Prizewinning author and a compelling memoir of being young and idealistic during an age of hardship and war.. A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi GermanyWhat’s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century’s most celebrated authors
At the same time, it offers an unusual perspective on Hitler’s rise to power: The rise of totalitarianism and the stultification of civil society, as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy.” —Anne Applebaum (from the new introduction)"Pared down prose, lean but sturdy, subtle yet unsettling, always with the power to provoke and to devastate." —The Quarterly Conversation . “Böll’s writing is filled with a bleak beauty that unflinchingly gazes upon the sources of both the bleakness and
"Determined not to become a pupil of death" according to Kerry Walters. When I was much younger, I went through a stage where I devoured everything by Heinrich Boll I could get my hands on. His thin memoir What's to Become of the Boy must've been one of those volumes I read, because, taking up my old copy after nearly Determined not to become a pupil of death When I was much younger, I went through a stage where I devoured everything by Heinrich Boll I could get my hands on. His thin memoir What's to Become of the Boy must've been one of those volumes I read, because, taking up my old copy after nearly 30 years, I see my marginalia in it. But I'm afraid I had no recollection of the contents, and so rereading it was just like a first reading.I wonder if I remembered. 0 years, I see my marginalia in it. But I'm afraid I had no recollection of the contents, and so rereading it was just like a first reading.I wonder if I remembered. God Preserved Him. Bernard Chapin I decided the other day to give many of my old Heinrich Boll editions a second and third reading both to preserve both their memory and also to strengthen my own mind. Few other authors can educate and entertain in the manner of this German master who survived immersion in the cauldron of the Third Reich. His career was devoted to preserving the past and helping us prevent what could be. What's to Become of th. Gary Sprandel said A remarkable youth in a remarkable time. After almost 50 years, Boll looks back at his teens from 15 to 19, from 19A remarkable youth in a remarkable time After almost 50 years, Boll looks back at his teens from 15 to 19, from 1933-37 in Germany, coinciding with Hitler's rise to power. Boll writes about the importance of books and intelligence in his childhood. These are not just the books in class ("Yes, school, I know -- I'll get back to that."), but more importantly outside reading: Dostoevsky, Dickens, Haecker. His family made every effort to provide his rea. A remarkable youth in a remarkable time After almost 50 years, Boll looks back at his teens from 15 to 19, from 1933-37 in Germany, coinciding with Hitler's rise to power. Boll writes about the importance of books and intelligence in his childhood. These are not just the books in class ("Yes, school, I know -- I'll get back to that."), but more importantly outside reading: Dostoevsky, Dickens, Haecker. His family made every effort to provide his rea. -A remarkable youth in a remarkable time After almost 50 years, Boll looks back at his teens from 15 to 19, from 1933-37 in Germany, coinciding with Hitler's rise to power. Boll writes about the importance of books and intelligence in his childhood. These are not just the books in class ("Yes, school, I know -- I'll get back to that."), but more importantly outside reading: Dostoevsky, Dickens, Haecker. His family made every effort to provide his rea. 7 in Germany, coinciding with Hitler's rise to power. Boll writes about the importance of books and intelligence in his childhood. These are not just the books in class ("Yes, school, I know -- I'll get back to that."), but more importantly outside reading: Dostoevsky, Dickens, Haecker. His family made every effort to provide his rea