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Jan 1, 2001 · Boll's story is presented as a portrait of a lady, Leni Pfeiffer, against the backdrop of a group her friends, family, colleagues, religious advisers and lovers.
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Group Portrait with Lady (German: Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a 1971 novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll. The novel revolves around a woman named Leni, and her friends, foes, lovers, employers and others and in the end tells the stories of all these people in a small city in western Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
Oct 12, 2022 · The German author Heinrich Böll’s (1917–85) Group Portrait with Lady is widely considered one of his most important novels because it was likely the deciding work in his selection for the 1972 Nobel Prize in literature.
Apr 5, 2011 · Group Portrait with Lady. Heinrich Boll. Melville House, Apr 5, 2011 - Fiction - 464 pages. Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of...
- Heinrich Boll
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Complete summary of Heinrich Boll's Group Portrait with Lady. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Group Portrait with Lady.
Heinrich Böll: Gruppenbild mit Dame (Group Portrait with Lady) This book is certainly Böll’s longest work. Some critics, including The Nobel Prize Committee, consider it his best. It certainly sums up a period of Germany, from about the early 1920s to around 1970.
Analysis and discussion of characters in Heinrich Boll's Group Portrait with Lady
