Deeply affected by the horror and the extent of human misery he encountered during World War II, Boll emerged from the experience with a sense of moral outrage toward political and social injustice as well as a deep compassion for the defenseless and the oppressed. Boll clearly professed a belief in the intrinsic responsibility of the writer to the general public and with genuine conviction was a leading and influential activist and spokesperson for a humane, democratic society.
In his early work, Boll primarily focused on the absurd futility of war and depicted in his fiction either wartime experiences or the difficulties encountered by a defeated people attempting to regain a semblance of their former lives. Gradually, however, Boll broadened his perspective to.....
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