- Fiction, Tabloid newspapers, Young women, Sensationalism in journalism
**The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead** (original German title: *Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann*, pronounced [diː fɛʁˈloːʁənə ˈʔeːʁə deːɐ̯ kataˈʁiːnaː ˈbluːm ˈʔoːdɐ viː ɡəˈvalt ʔɛntˈʃteːən ʔʊnt voˈhɪn ziː ˈfyːʁən ˈkan]) is a 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Heinrich Böll
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 140
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill, Carambaia, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- epo, Portuguese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9782020016162
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One of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
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