 Given this connection, it is tempting to see resonances between Böll's work – specifically, his surreal play "A Mouthful of Earth" – and that of his esoteric contemporary Samuel Beckett.Böll's concern about damage to the environment, so evident from his play, was a driving force behind the establishment of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.Böll's villains are the figures of authority in government, business, the mainstream media, and in the Church, whom he castigates, sometimes humorously, sometimes acidly, for what he perceived as their conformism, lack of courage, self-satisfied attitude and abuse of power.