The Casualty

by Heinrich Böll

Book Overview

These stories by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich B?ll, written between 1946 and 1952 but only published here in 1987, are stunning accounts of German soldiers in a war they did not want and the bleak... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374119678
• ISBN13: 9780374119676
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A striking and terrifying view of war and its aftermath

These 22 short stories by Heinrich Böll are powerful and moving. Most of the stories are very short, "The Casualty" being the longest (40 pages in this edition). "Vive La France" gives a good description of the passing of time, and is a tense, atmospheric story. "Beside the River" is also especially good, the despair and hopelessness of the story is almost tangible, and the switching of narrators is well done. All in all, I was very impressed with these stories, and am surprised that they are not more widely read.