SOURCE: "Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katherina Blum as Novelle," in Colloquia Germanica, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1981, pp. 158-74.
In the following essay, Sinka summarizes how Die verlorene Ehre has been classified (variously as a novella, novel, and political pamphlet) and explores how genrebased perceptions affect interpretations of Böll's work.
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