Group Portrait with Lady (novel)
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(publ. Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Group Portrait with Lady (Template:Langx) is a 1971 novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll.[1] The novel is concerned with a woman named Leni Pfieffer (née Gruyten) who faces eviction from her apartment building in Cologne. It structured as a report compiled from interviews conducted by an unnamed author with Leni’s friends, family, employers, coworkers, and others, forming a detailed social portrait of life in Cologne from the 1910s to 1971.[2] Like many of Böll's novels, there is a particular focus on representing the Nazi era from the perspective of ordinary people.
The Nobel Prize committee referred to Group Portrait with Lady as Böll’s "most grandly conceived work."[3]
The novel was adapted into a film in 1977.
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External links
- "Portrait of a woman, a city and modern Germany— Heinrich Böll's best novel", review by Richard Locke in The New York Times, May 6, 1973.
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