Through the eyes of a clown. Billiards at half past nine
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Through the eyes of a clown. Billiards at half past nine
14.99 €
Through the Eyes of a Clown (1963). "I am a clown and I collect moments," says Hans Schnir, a beggar artist, "a stranger among strangers, a stranger among his own," the prodigal son of the rich society of the big bourgeois, the hero of one of the best, most poignant and bitter European books of the twentieth century. The action of Böll's novel, first published in 1963, which critics called "the German "Above the Rye", takes place during just one day of Hans's life, but this day, in which the events of the present are mixed with memories of the past, summarizes not only the life of the saddest clown, but also the fate of the whole of Germany - at first glance happy and prosperous, but in reality deeply experiencing the drama of involvement in the defeated, but not yet forgotten "ordinary fascism. Billiards at half past ten (1959). The architect Heinrich Femel turns eighty years old. The anniversary is a good occasion to summarize the life lived. His victory - the victory of an unknown outsider in the competition for the construction of the Abbey of St. Anthony - promised a full and happy life ... And in the end - deceived expectations ... Henry's wife is kept in a privileged hospital for the mentally ill, the youngest son Otto, even in his youth defected to the executioners, ready to drown the world in blood, became a stranger in his family ... In this day, which became a turning point in the fate of the characters of the novel, focused all the tragic history of Germany in the second half of XX century ...
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