The Stories of Heinrich Boll

This volume collects sixty-three short stories and novellas written by Heinrich BÖll between 1947 and 1985. In brings together selections from BÖll's earlier collections, stories published only in periodicals, four novellas, and previously unpublished work. The collection spans Boll's career, from the stories focusing on soldiers and returning veterans, to the masterfully satirical tales of later years, with their sharp criticism of the new German sociopolitical order. His eloquent denunciations of war's senselessness and the hypocrisy of modern life, and his affirmation of the poetry of human experience, won BÖll a global audience, and in 1972 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"Those still unacquainted with BÖll could not ask for a better, more comprehensive introduction to his prose tales than this volume." --Choice

"Essential for all European literature collections." --Library Journal