Billiards at Half-Past Nine
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine is a 1959 novel by Heinrich Böll that explores guilt, memory, and moral responsibility in postwar Germany through the intertwined stories of three generations of an architect’s family.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billiards at Half-Past Nine canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Heinrich Böll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralFamily | Fähmel family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Heinrich Fähmel
NERFINISHED
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Johanna Fähmel NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Fähmel NERFINISHED ⓘ Nettlinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Fähmel NERFINISHED ⓘ Schrella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| explores |
complicity and resistance
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generational conflict ⓘ the legacy of National Socialism ⓘ trauma and remembrance ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Clown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
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political fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | Billiards at Half-Past Nine (English) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Trümmerliteratur
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postwar German literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Catholicism
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Nazism ⓘ guilt ⓘ individual versus collective responsibility ⓘ memory ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
| motif |
billiards
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the "Host of the Beast" and "Host of the Lamb" NERFINISHED ⓘ the Abbey of St. Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure |
multiple perspectives
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shifting points of view ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex narrative structure
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moral and political critique of German society ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Billard um halb zehn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Heinrich Böll bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | And Never Said a Word NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Robert Fähmel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| publisher | Kiepenheuer & Witsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | postwar Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | an unnamed German city ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory | one day with extensive flashbacks ⓘ |
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