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SOURCE: '"Konduktion and Niveauunterschiede': The Structure of Böll's Katharina Blum," in Monatshefte, Vol. 74, No. 2, Summer, 1982, pp. 167-78.
In the following essay, Sewell analyzes the form of Böll's novella Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, describing it as "a structure which threatens to slip into chaos, but paradoxically does not"
If critics have by and large directed their energies towards the content of Böll's work, they have been seduced into doing so, as Rainer Nägele points out [in Heinrich BÖll: Einführung in das Werk und die Forschung, 1976], by the very nature of the work itself:
Es liegt allerdings zum Teil an BÖlls Werk selbst, wenn das Interesse an formalen Aspekten oft in den Hintergrund getreten ist; denn im Gegensatz etwa zur experimentellen Literatur bleibt das Formale bei BÖll eher unauffällig, während das emotionale Engagement sich viel deutlicher aufdr...
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