What's To Become Of The Boy?: A Memoir
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Heinrich Böll
Binding: Hardback
Published: Secker & Warburg, 1985
Condition:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Heinrich Böll’s What’s to Become of the Boy? A Memoir offers a candid and intimate account of the author’s adolescence in Cologne during the rise of Nazi Germany, spanning the years 1933 to 1937. Written in a conversational, unstructured style, the memoir reflects on Böll’s formative experiences without relying on diaries or documentation, emphasising the fragility and subjectivity of memory. As his only formal autobiography, it reveals the early development of his critical stance toward authoritarianism and societal conformity—perspectives that would shape his later literary work. This reflective narrative is essential reading for those interested in 20th-century German history, autobiographical literature, and the roots of postwar intellectual resistance.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Binding: Hardback
Published: Secker & Warburg, 1985
Condition:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Heinrich Böll’s What’s to Become of the Boy? A Memoir offers a candid and intimate account of the author’s adolescence in Cologne during the rise of Nazi Germany, spanning the years 1933 to 1937. Written in a conversational, unstructured style, the memoir reflects on Böll’s formative experiences without relying on diaries or documentation, emphasising the fragility and subjectivity of memory. As his only formal autobiography, it reveals the early development of his critical stance toward authoritarianism and societal conformity—perspectives that would shape his later literary work. This reflective narrative is essential reading for those interested in 20th-century German history, autobiographical literature, and the roots of postwar intellectual resistance.