by Heinrich Böll · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422649533
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«Opiniones de un payaso» is the novel by German writer Heinrich Böll, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (324 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Hans Schnier, a clown who, after being abandoned by his wife, ekes out a living on the steps of Bonn station and reviews his life. His interior monologues portray postwar Germany and lay bare the hypocrisy of the institutions, religion and bourgeois conventions of the era.
Biblioteca de Plata de la Narrativa del Siglo XX collection, number 10. Translation by Lucas Casas from the German Ansichten eines Clowns (1963), with a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa.
For readers interested in twentieth-century German literature and in the critical portrait of postwar society.
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).
