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Billiards at Half-Past Nine

Heinrich Böll

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Author	:	Heinrich Böll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1994 by Penguin Classics (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Cultural. Germany. Classics

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Heinrich Böll's well-known, vehement opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of Robert Faehmel. After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at the end of the war. He adheres to a rigorous schedule, including a daily game of billiards. When his routine is breached by an old friend from his past, now a power in German reconstruction, Faehmel is forced to confront bothpublic and private memories.

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Original Title:	Billard um halb zehn
ISBN:	0140187243 (ISBN13: 9780140187243)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Robert Faehmel
Setting:	Germany

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Set in post-war Germany in the late 50's (although large parts of the narrative focuses on events from the past), Heinrich Böll has written a multi-layered and complex work of brilliance, that uses a free-form narrative, and, on a limited scale, a more structured recognizable one, which alternates around depending on whether in the past or present. And I have to say it's masterfully done. Böll starts out by giving nothing away, regarding names, where we are, or what's going on, landing the

This is among the best books I have read, and reread, many times. Heinrich Boll was a thoughtful, anxious writer, who saw much, and I wonder how much of what he saw and felt he didn't tell (this in the face of some very honest, sometimes damning books. I just believe there was more).

A bricolage of memories told through the voices of three generations, spanning the end of the liberal age through the two World Wars until the dawn of the Cold War. A novel of resentment, revenge, and reconciliation. If you enjoy the works of Faulkner, chances are you will enjoy Boll's prose style.

Böll wants to get a very strong moral message across - that is very upfront. At times it can feel like you are being lectured to. But in the end, the force of that message, the story and the characters prevail. I was so overwhelmed by the different themes and ideas that I ended up drawing a mind map of them to be able to get it straight in my head. Some scenes - like when a man who was arrested by the Nazis explains to his persecutor many years later why it's OK to ask the waiter to pack up your

Three generations of Germans, two world wars, a lot of deaths, destruction and guilt in between. That's a good way of summarizing this book.Central character is Robert Faehmel. Strongly antiwar, hated the guts of Germany's militaristic leaders during both world wars yet, due to circumstances of self-preservation, became a commander of retreating German forces [mainly due to his expertise in blowing things up:] during the waning days of the second war and was responsible for the senseless

Read a first time in 1987 and I was already pretty impressed. Böll shows in a very oppressive way how Germany in 1959 still had not processed the legacy of the nazi past (in the novel there is no explicit reference to the nazis, but the constant reference tot the "Sacrament of the Buffalo" is clear enough). The idea to follow three generations and their dealings with the Abbey of St. Anonius (the grandfather build it, the son demolished it in the war and the grandson restored it) is very well

A bricolage of memories told through the voices of three generations, spanning the end of the liberal age through the two World Wars until the dawn of the Cold War. A novel of resentment, revenge, and reconciliation. If you enjoy the works of Faulkner, chances are you will enjoy Boll's prose style.