Clown
The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the
wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and
double standards became a way of life. Heinrich Boll's clown is a professional
entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his tether: an
unhappy drunk abandoned by the woman he loves, too honest and disillusioned to
compromise, he sits in his lonely furnished flat and calls for help or
consolation of any kind.
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The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the
wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and
double standards became a way of life. Heinrich Boll's clown is a professional
entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his tether: an
unhappy drunk abandoned by the woman he loves, too honest and disillusioned to
compromise, he sits in his lonely furnished flat and calls for help or
consolation of any kind. For this is a study in hypocrisy - emotional, sexual,
religious and political - where the majority are smugly blinkered and the rest
are caught in a trap they fail to understand, let alone escape.
wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and
double standards became a way of life. Heinrich Boll's clown is a professional
entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his tether: an
unhappy drunk abandoned by the woman he loves, too honest and disillusioned to
compromise, he sits in his lonely furnished flat and calls for help or
consolation of any kind. For this is a study in hypocrisy - emotional, sexual,
religious and political - where the majority are smugly blinkered and the rest
are caught in a trap they fail to understand, let alone escape.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780714501680
- Utgivelsesår
- 1965
- Format
- 20 x 14 cm