Heinrich Böll, Haus ohne Hüter [The Unguarded House / Tomorrow and Yesterday]

Herbert Rowland (Purdue University)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1954

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) was one of Germany’s most popular and most important authors and public intellectuals during the decades following World War II. From the later 1940s to the early 1970s he devoted most of his extensive long- and short-form narrative prose as well as numerous radio plays and essays to the depiction and elucidation of the war and its impact on the individual and the nation, both during the conflict and over the ensuing years. Haus ohne Hüter [Tomorrow and Yesterday / The Unguarded House, 1954] was his second, and lengthiest published novel to focus on the problems of public and especially private life in Germany during the period of restoration and reconstruction in the 1950s.&…

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Citation: Rowland, Herbert. "Haus ohne Hüter". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 May 2022 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11630, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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