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Women in a River Landscape

by Heinrich Böll

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As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Boll's trenchant novesl cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears and suppurating physic states excluding poison into the system. WOMEN IN A RIVER LANDSCAPE brings this process to a fierce, fince culmination. . . Boll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicament of characters who seem not only rainted culprits but also victims of history SUNDAY TIMES.… (more)
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    soylentgreen23: Both books explore difficult political situations and concern characters involved in the politics, and not just innocent bystanders. Too much power, the issue of corruption, and the conflict of right and wrong are all considered.
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Heinrich Bölls letztes Werk - in dem die Frauen der Politiker aus der Bonner Regierungszeit im Mittelpunkt stehen.
Ihre Villen stehen zwischen Bonn und Bad Godesberg, auf dem politischen Parkett dürfen sie nur als dekorative Statistinnen auftreten: die Frauen der Politiker. Sie hat Heinrich Böll in seinem letzten Werk in den Vordergrund gerückt.
In einer Welt der Ränke und Intrigen, des Strebens nach Macht und Einfluss, in der sich ihre Männer fast ausnahmslos bewegen, sind sie das heimliche menschliche Korrektiv. Böll porträtiert nicht, legt keine Spuren zur Identifikation bekannter Politiker. Seine Figuren sind überzeichnet, aber so, dass sie im Unkenntlichen als Modelle der Bonner Szene erkennbar werden. »Ich kenne eigentlich keinen Text, der die Zustände der Menschen und wie sie leben, wie leblos sie leben, besser beschreibt.« Volker Schlöndorff
  Fredo68 | May 14, 2020 |
I didn't expect to enjoy Boll's last work. Composed of long dialogues between the characters, much in the manner of a play and with a spattering of stage instructions, and soliloquies, where the characters speak or think to themselves, I was worried that too much would be expository and therefore dull, and that the rest would be mysterious and therefore confusing.

However, I let the first few pages wash over me, not worrying too much to keep track of the names mentioned, but rather to get a sense of the writing. I soon discovered I was enjoying myself, and before long I was hooked.

There is a sadness that runs through this tale of political and moral corruption in 1980s Germany; some of the characters seem to mean so well, yet are misled or make mistakes, and become distressed when they see the consequences of even their most inconsequential act. Further, the weight of history bears down relentlessly. By the end of the book I knew I was holding in my hands a minor masterpiece by a very deserved winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Böll, Heinrichprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dubuy, DominiqueTraductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McLintock, DavidTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pancras, GerdaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Riehl, ClaudeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Calma nel cuore del viandante

La ignobile coscienza

nessuno abbia a dispetto;

poich'ess è la potenza,

checché ti venga detto.

Nel male essa s'impone

per il maggior provento,

e col bene dispone

del tutto a suo talento.

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To my friends everywhere, wherever they are.
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The spacious enclosed veranda of an upper-middle-class villa built around the turn of the century, between Bonn and Bad Godesberg, early in the morning in late summer.
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Poiché tutto in questo romanzo è fittizio, ad eccezione del luogo della finzione, non c'è bisogno di nessuna delle consuete formule difensive. Il luogo è innocente, non può sentirsi chiamato in causa.

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As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Boll's trenchant novesl cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears and suppurating physic states excluding poison into the system. WOMEN IN A RIVER LANDSCAPE brings this process to a fierce, fince culmination. . . Boll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicament of characters who seem not only rainted culprits but also victims of history SUNDAY TIMES.

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