2024 # 3 (65)
Levitina A.M.
The House that Böll Built: the Concept of House in Heinrich Böll’s 1950-s Novels
Abstract
The article analyzes the concept of house in three 1950-s novels by H. Böll: “And Never Said a Word”, “The Unguarded House; Tomorrow and Yesterday” and “Billiards at half past nine”. Special attention is paid to the problems of space exploration and the “chaos-order” dichotomy.
Key words
Heinrich Böll, German literature, concept of house, Group 47,
post-war Germany literature, architectural spaces, constellation, concept of antihouse, communication, conciliarity
