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The Clown by Heinrich Böll | |
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| Name: |
Heinrich Böll | | Birth Date: |
December 21, 1917 | | Death Date: |
July 16, 1985 | | Place of Birth: |
Cologne, Germany | | Place of Death: |
Bonn, Germany | | Nationality: |
German | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, translator, essayist |
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Biography of Heinrich Böll
7801 words, approx. 26 pages
 When in the summer of 1972 Heinrich Boll received the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, he responded with the surprised question: "Was, ich, und nicht Gunter Grass"" (Really? I, and not Gunter Grass"). This reaction summarizes...
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Biography of Heinrich (Theodor) Boell
7068 words, approx. 23.6 pages
 When in the summer of 1972 Heinrich Böll received the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, he responded with the surprised question: "Was, ich, und nicht Günter Grass"" (Really? I, and not Günter Grass"). This react...
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Biography of Heinrich Böll
4359 words, approx. 14.5 pages
 One of Germany's most popular and prolific authors, Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) gained international fame--winning the Nobel Prize in 1972--as a chronicler of the Federal German Republic (1949-1990). Critics have generally emphasized his strong ethica...




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Clown
04/01/2003: 438 words, approx. 2 pages Video Clown Reviewed by Bill Ellet for Training Media Review I'm not sure what it is about the topic of diversity that inspires creativity and provokes course designers to avoid the safe, conventional formulas common with other training topics. Consider Blue...
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 Indiana Review
Clown Girl
07/01/2007: 712 words, approx. 2 pages Monica Drake. Clown Girl. Portland, Oregon: Hawthorne Books &. Literary Arts, 2007. $15.95 paper (ISBN 0-9766311-5-6), 297 pages. Reviewed by Jeffrey Sartain Monica Drake, a frequent contributor to two of the Pacific Northwest's premiere altweeklies, The Stranger and The Portland Mercury, makes...
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 AP News
Bello the clown's mini-bike returned
4/1/2007: 278 words, approx. 1 pages Bello Nock, the daredevil clown, was all smiles Sunday when he was reunited with his lost little bike.The star of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus thanked Ricky Robinson, who found Bello's shiny foot-high, 6-inch-wide contraption Friday night outside a restaurant on Manhattan's...
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'The Clown' takes stand at mob trial
8/15/2007: 492 words, approx. 2 pages Reputed mob boss Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo told a jury Tuesday that he once shined police officers' shoes and ran a dice game, but he denied committing a murder that could send him to prison for the rest of his life."On Sept. 27, 1974,...



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Critical Essay by Frank J. Warnke
946 words, approx. 3 pages
 It is wrong-headed to read The Clown as a simple condemnation of German national character, or to find in its wistful hero that mythical figure so dear to our own uneasy sense of virtue—the Good German Intellectual castigating his vicious and hypocritical countrymen. Vice and hypocrisy are the subjects of the book, satiric castigation is its mode, and the twilight of the Nazi era sounds a sinister ground-bass in the memory of the narrator-protagonist, but neither ex-Nazis nor neo-Nazis are conspicuou...


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The Clown by Heinrich Böll | |
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