By Heinrich Böll
Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll's robust novel a few girl terrorized through the media
In an period during which newshounds will cease at not anything to wreck a narrative, Henrich Böll's The misplaced Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. a tender woman's organization with a hunted guy makes her the objective of a journalist decided to snatch headlines by way of portraying her as an evil girl. because the assaults on her strengthen and he or she turns into the sufferer of nameless threats, Katharina sees just one means out of her nightmare. Turning the secret style on its head, the unconventional starts off with the confession of against the law, drawing the reader right into a net of sensationalism, personality assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.
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One was the owner of a hairdressing salon, a Mrs. Schmill, the other a retired employee of the electricity works by the name of Ruhwiedel, and the startling thing was that both statements included the assertion that from time to time Katharina had received or brought home a gentleman visitor. Mrs. Schmill maintained that this visitor had come regularly, maybe every two or three weeks, an athletic-looking gentleman of about forty, from an "obviously superior" background, whereas Mr. Ruhwiedel described the visitor as a fairly young fellow who had sometimes entered Miss Blum's apartment alone and sometimes accompanied by Miss Blum.
Blorna seized the first opportunity to draw Katharina's attention to the criminal nature of her action. Nor should Katharina's remark to Miss Woltersheim about Gotten be withheld: "But don't you see—he was simply the One who was to come, and I would have married him and had children with him—even if I had had to wait years till he got out of jail! 27 The interrogation of Katharina could thus be considered at an end; she had merely to be available for a possible confrontation with statements made by the other Woltersheim guests.
Upon now being ordered to identify the visitor she shook her head "almost in horror" and refused to give any names. — reprehensible for amorousness occasionally to result in certain material benefits. And at this Katharina Blum 33 HEINRICH BÖLL finally dug in her heels. She refused to make any further statement and insisted on being taken either home or to a cell. —said he would have her taken home by a police officer. But then, when she had already risen and was gathering up her handbag, toilet articles, and the plastic bag, he suddenly barked the question at her: "How in the world did that amorous Ludwig of yours get out of the building last night?