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Georg Büchner Prize げおるく・びゅひなーしょう

Edition 42 (1967)

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Heinrich Böll はいんりひ・べーる Winner

A postwar German novel that follows a clown figure to probe hypocrisy, loneliness, and the conflict between faith, ethics, and society.

A postwar German novel that follows a clown figure to probe hypocrisy, loneliness, and the conflict between faith, ethics, and society.

288 pages
postwar Germanyindividual and societyreligion and ethicssolitude