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Heinrich Boll |
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Format: Paperback, 103
Publisher: Penguin Classics (September 29, 2009)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.25 lbs.
ISBN: 9780143105404 |
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Nobel laureate Heinrich Boll's THE LOST HONOR KATHARINA BLUM (1974) is a stinging indictment of the tabloid press, sensationalistic journalism, and society's distorted sense of reality. Katharina Blum is a simple, hard-working housekeeper who briefly becomes sexually involved with a small-time bank robber. An unscrupulous tabloid journalist, Totges, takes advantage of this wisp of a story--along with Germany's widespread unease over the Red Army Faction radical terrorist group--to create a series of inflammatory articles that destroy Katharina's reputation. Finally, pushed to the breaking point, Katharina finds herself lashing out at her devilish persecutors. Boll's book was one of the first to deeply examine the power and abuses at work in the mass media--an issue as relevant today as it was in the 1970s. |
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