by Heinrich Boll · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422689089
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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, a young and reserved woman, spends a night with a man the police are looking for over an alleged crime. From that encounter, the investigation and the machinery of a sensationalist newspaper drag her name and private life into the public eye, until her life falls apart. The novel denounces the power of the press to manipulate facts and shows how prejudice and defamation can destroy a person.
The novel was originally published in 1974 in German under the title «Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum». This 2001 edition, translated by Helene Katendhal, is part of the Letra grande XL. Gran Reserva collection.
For readers of 20th-century European fiction seeking a scathing critique of sensationalism and social pressure on the individual.
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).
