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Intertextualitat im Werk Heinrich Bolls.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050101
Author:Reid, J.H.

Intertextualitat im Werk Heinrich Bolls. By CHRISTINE HUMMEL. (Schriftenreihe Literaturwissenschaft, 59) Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 2002. xviii + 367 pp. 34.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-88476-521-3.

Heinrich Boll's work lends itself to an investigation of intertextuality for a variety of reasons. As early as 1971 he declared: 'Ich glaube, dass jeder Autor von der gesamten Lekture mitbestimmtist, die er absolvier that, leidenschaftlich absolvier that, bevor er anfing zu schreiben'; the 'dialogue' with his predecessors, whether these were G K Chesterton or Fyodor Dostoevsky, but ...

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