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'It conveys, with concreteness and vitality, the, the detailed quality of ordinary life in the Hitler years and at the time of their catastrophic end' -Sunday Telegraph 'Leni (the central character) is seen through a series of interviews with witnesses who make up this huge "group portrait". This works brilliantly as a parody of fashionable documentary; then by making the story resonant with overlapping echoes; and finally by counterpointing these voices of the imagination with the terrible dead language of real documents of Nazi bureaucracy' -Guardian 'A work of considerable distinction' -The Times Literary Supplement
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Group Portrait with Lady, Heinrich Böll
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- Released
- 1976
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Heinrich Böll
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1976
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140041230
- ISBN13
- 9780140041231
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Topics, Humor, Religion, Love, German Literature, Classics, Germany, World War II, Society, Adapted for Film, Jews, Satire, Rome, Church, Nobel prize, Roma, Gypsies, Post-War Era
- First published
- 1971
- Original title
- Gruppenbild mit Dame
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 'It conveys, with concreteness and vitality, the, the detailed quality of ordinary life in the Hitler years and at the time of their catastrophic end' -Sunday Telegraph 'Leni (the central character) is seen through a series of interviews with witnesses who make up this huge "group portrait". This works brilliantly as a parody of fashionable documentary; then by making the story resonant with overlapping echoes; and finally by counterpointing these voices of the imagination with the terrible dead language of real documents of Nazi bureaucracy' -Guardian 'A work of considerable distinction' -The Times Literary Supplement