Add this copy of Group Portrait with Lady to cart. $1.98, very good condition, Sold by Montereybooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Verne, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Avon Books.
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Very Good. Text in English, German. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Fast delivery from the U.S. of this paperback book in very good condition. Usually ships in one business day; tracking number included. Sent from a non-smoking environment. Excellent customer service.
Add this copy of Group Portrait With Lady to cart. $2.98, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Avon Books.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6? "-7? " tall; Avon Books1974. Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Heinrich Boll is the first German to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Cover is clean and unmarked with slight wear to edges; binding solid and square; pages toned, quite clean, no marks of any kind. Leni Pfeiffer is chosen as the 'most German Girl' in her school by a roving panel of racial experts; she is an admirer of Kafka, a communist sympathizer, and, as the story opens, the lover of a Turkish garbage collector. Boll unveils the mystery of her personality through interviews with dozens of 'informers'--cabinet ministers, poets, profiteers, Communists, Gestapo, Catholics--and in this unveiling, unveils the riddle of Germany itself. Boll mixes social satire and sentiment in this life work. 432 pages. 12 mo. 1974, Avon Books.
Add this copy of Group Portrait With Lady to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by The Book House - Saint Louis rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from St. Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Avon Books.
The main problem I had with this book is the ?talking head? tack that it takes. Very little is it is straight dialogue. While the view of life during the Nazi era are laid out in convincing words, the lack of what might be called proper ?scenes? or ?drama? gets enervating to read. You are reading other people?s accounts of what happened in the past and thus the long tracts of this comes off like a history lesson, even if the human element is included.
However, the clarity of the writing and the unflinching look at civilian behavior makes this a poignant and ultimately human story.
As the story of one woman?s life, a woman who startles by her desire for life and her lack of remorse in enjoying herself, we are treated to the feelings, thoughts, opinions and observations of those who knew her. The author created the woman, Leni Pfeiffer née Gruyten, to be reticent and taciturn so that the reader is forced to make his assessments of her character mainly through the viewpoints of others. It is not an unknown conceit; Bram Stoker did much the same thing with his legendary creation, Dracula. Like that horror novel, Böll not only shows us a glimpse of Leni?s character but a broad panorama of a nation in flux and a world at war.
