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The Bread of Those Early Years (European classics) (Paperback)

by Heinrich Boll (Author)
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  • Paperback: 134 pages
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press,U.S. (31 Dec 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0810111632
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810111639
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.5 x 0.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,883 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A modern masterpiece, 29 Nov 2003
By Alison Lawson (Chesham, Bucks United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is one of my favourite books. I read it at A level in 1986 and have re-read it (in German) many times. The simple love story and the quite ordinary events of the day on which the story is set are told amidst a flood of flashbacks to the main character's (Walter) childhood and young adulthood. It's a very moving examination of the deprivation suffered in post-war Germany and of the effect it had on the people. Walter is a rather sad figure, hugely introspective with a very sensitive side. Boll uses colour symbolism to show us Walter's views of materialism and greed and how much he dislikes these qualities. Yet Walter has his own greed - his need for bread, which harks back to its scarcity in the years immediately after the war.

I bought the English translation as I've recommended this book to so many friends who don't read German and I really want as many people as possible to read it - it's the most beautiful book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Give Us Our Daily Bread, 19 Jul 2002
This review is from: The Bread of Those Early Years (Hardcover)
Now I might not have bought this book here, but I read it as a 16 year old many years ago and have read it many times since. I still have the tatty edition on my shelf bearing the stamped legend of my school. This is Boll's classic love story, where post-war Germany's struggle with hunger, fragmented identity and responsibility finds its mirror in an individual - apprentice Walter Fendrich - and a single Monday in his life which will change his life forever.We follow this day from its beginning until night falls on the city and Fendrich finds his salvation in the unconditional love he begins to feel for a young trainee teacher, Hedwig, who transcends the gloom of the era.
Through the narrative we relive memories of a desensitised past related through colour symbolism (of which Boll was an acknowledged master) and striking, horrific and often grotesque image, where everyone - from a schoolmate who drowned before the war to Fendrich's dying mother - becomes a citizen of the same purgatory. Most of all, we are hit with the selfish, critical Fendrich's continual greed for bread - an expression that's as much Germany's need for spiritual, political and economic sustinence as his own. Ahem.
But don't let this put you off. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the brutalising effects of war on simple civilian, domestic life and, more importantly, anyone who has ever been changed or saved by love. Most interestingly, it is a book about the process of turning-points as they happen, rather than the cosy after-effects. This is a book about epiphany, self-acceptance and redemption. By the end of the book, our hero Fendrich realises that the 'journey' takes precedence above all things... Oh and did I mention that he's an apprentice?
'Es was ein Montag Morgen...'
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