At a brothel, the narrator hires a prostitute named       Olina, whom he asks to play him a Beethoven sonata, and who offers to rescue him by taking him to a little village in the Carpathians.
This work's narrator borrows a map of Poland from another man, but after finding that the names on the map "evoked no definite echo," asks to keep it. At a brothel, the narrator hires a prostitute named       Olina, whom he asks to play him a Beethoven sonata, and who offers to rescue him by taking him to a little village in the Carpathians. The narrator of this work repeatedly tells himself "Soon, I'm going to die," a prophecy that comes true when the car in which he, Olina, and a soldier named Willi is attacked on the way to Stryy. After asking himself "How much longer will the war go on?" the narrator of this novella concludes that it "won't be over before the end of 1944" because "this whole apparatus... [is] too obedient." For 10 points, identify this novel in which the German soldier Andreas travels to the Eastern front via the titular conveyance, the first published work of Heinrich Boll.
This work's narrator borrows a map of Poland from another man, but after finding that the names on the map "evoked no definite echo," asks to keep it.
The Train Was On Time [or Der Zug war punklich]