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| Title | : | The Train Was on Time |
| Author | : | Heinrich Böll |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 110 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 1994 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Cultural. Germany. Classics. War. Novels |
Heinrich Böll
Paperback | Pages: 110 pages Rating: 3.84 | 2234 Users | 194 Reviews
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Heinrich Böll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the battle on the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanised by the thought that he is on the way to his death. As the train hurtles on, he riffs through prayers and memories, talks with other soldiers about what they've been through, and gazes desperately out the window at his country racing away. With mounting suspense, Andreas is gripped by one thought over all: Is there a way to defy his fate?
Details Books In Pursuance Of The Train Was on Time
| Original Title: | Der Zug war pünktlich |
| ISBN: | 0810111233 (ISBN13: 9780810111233) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Andreas (The Train Was on Time), Willi (The Train Was on Time), Olina (The Train Was on Time) |
| Setting: | Germany,1943 Poland,1943 |
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Having now read all of the Booker longlisted books I can get my hands on, I am back to reading some that have been patiently sitting on the to read shelf for a few months. Böll has been a writer I felt I should have read for a while, and this early novella was my first experience.The whole book is a test of the premise "what if I knew exactly when I was going to die". The book is mostly set on a German troop train in 1943, which is travelling from the Rheinland towards the front in easternmy first heinrich boll; good stuff! reminded me some of anna kavan's Ice, though much more realistic. also it was strange that i read it after The Driver's Seat, as the two had very similar storylines... person travels in a straight line toward death, unwilling and/or unable to turn aside. not scathing like the driver's seat, however... sadder, haunted, beautiful.there's a quality about post-war european books i really love; they have this air of profundity which i guess is a product of
Deathly IroniesImpending death certainly concentrates the mind. In 1943 a German soldier returning to his unit on the collapsing Eastern front, has good reason to anticipate death. His thoughts are not about the past or of loved ones or a life he has left. Rather, he thinks about his war experiences and the present as it streaks by outside his railway carriage. He believes that what he sees and smells is the last time he will see and smell these things - the cities, the girl-volunteers serving
I'm not sure how I could have written the below review. I forgot entirely that I'd ever read this book, and I think "how blind you were...I see you recognized the ugly black thread, but you missed everything else?" Boll's novella is a haunting assemblage of something that appears to be that end of life flashback playing on a dream reel, superimposed with the word Stryy. It is time in the context of the last moment; it is the last moment stamped on all the minutes of his life. It is life without
Andreas is a 24 year old German soldier in WW2, he has been in the army for four years, it's the end of the war now. He is on a train that is taking him and his fellow soldiers to what is a sure death.Andreas hasn't been kissed, he hasn't had sex, he has never been in love(except perhaps for a strangers dark eyes) something that could be an obsession or love, he and we will never know.During the train ride we experience his mental and emotional disintegration, you could say it's an accelerated
I dont want to die, but the terrible thing is that I'm going to dieThe somber outlines of the city moved past the windowWhen would this Soon be?[The blood] flowed back into his heart ,circling, circling, life was circlingAnd all the pulse beat said was: Soon!What a terrible word: SoonSoon can mean in one second, soon can mean in one yearSoon is terrible wordThis soon compresses the future, shrinks it, offers no certainty, no certainty, whateverIt stands for absolute uncertaintySoon is nothing
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