The Clown

How is the novel, The Clown, a satire?

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Beginning with the publication of Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1962), Boll initiated a creative process to systematically investigate and analyze the development of German society while intertwining in his fiction the generation which experienced the First World War and the generation which grew up under Hitler. As part of this process, The Clown represents a satirical commentary on contemporary Germany.

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