
Clown
by Heinrich Boll
Title:
Clown
Author:
Heinrich Boll
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
247 pages
Publisher:
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780714501680
EAN:
9780714501680
Publication Date:
01/01/1965
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
416
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 128 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 have become 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 snugly blinkered and the rest are caught in a trap fail to understand, let alone escape.














