The protagonist of this novel is haunted by the death of his sister Henrietta for which he blames his hypocritical mother, now president of the Executive Committee of the Societies for the Reconciliation of Racial Differences.
The protagonist of this novel is haunted by the death of his sister Henrietta for which he blames his hypocritical mother, now president of the Executive Committee of the Societies for the Reconciliation of Racial Differences. He finds little solace aside from sitting in a bathtub, reading newspapers and drinking, and he is shocked to find out that Herbert Kalick, once the leader of a local Hitler youth group, has received an award. The novel uses a series of phone calls as flash backs to such scenes as the title figure's realization that Zupfner has tricked him and to memories of his once successful act based on pantomimes that exposed the absurdities of life. It ends in a Bonn railway station with the realization that Marie will never return to the life of Hans Scheiner, the title character of, FTP, what Heinrich Boll novel?
The protagonist of this novel is haunted by the death of his sister Henrietta for which he blames his hypocritical mother, now president of the Executive Committee of the Societies for the Reconciliation of Racial Differences.
{The Clown}