A Study of Heinrich Boll's Works in The Story Labyrinth

 

Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

 

His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he remains one of Germany's most widely read authors. His best-known works are Billiards at Half-past Nine (1959), And Never Said a Word (1953), The Bread of Those Early Years (1955), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974), and The Safety Net (1979).

 

Despite the variety of themes and content in his work, there are certain recurring patterns: many of his novels and stories describe intimate and personal life struggling to sustain itself against the wider background of war, terrorism, political divisions, and profound economic and social transition. In a number of his books there are protagonists who are stubborn and eccentric individualists opposed to the mechanisms of the state or of public institutions.

 

Behnaz Bostandoust will tell the story of "The situation that occurs in bad novels" written by Boll in the program "Story Labyrinth" and will analyze and study this work in the expert section together with Kayhan Bahmani. Boll's biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and produced by Jaleh Mohammad Ali.