by Heinrich Böll · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422620303
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«El honor perdido de Katharina Blum» is the novel by Heinrich Böll, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Katharina Blum spends the night with a man she has just met; the next day she discovers he is suspected of several crimes and she is accused of complicity. The press, the police and the justice system turn on her until her reputation is destroyed. Böll offers a critique of sensationalist media and the abuse of power.
This edition belongs to the Narradores del Mundo collection. The work was originally published in 1974 as «Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum» and was adapted into a film in 1975 by Volker Schlöndorff.
A classic of twentieth-century German literature and a common school reading, for readers interested in social criticism and the role of the media.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
