This first novel by Heinrich Böll, who would later win the Nobel Prize, begins with a German soldier in World War II waiting for a train in Poland that will be taking him to the Russian front. You can guess from the title of the novel, that the punctuality of train is ominous. He begins with a clear premonition that he is going to die as a result of this trip, and that he is going to die very soon. There’s a gross scene early […]
The Train was on Time – Heinrich Böll (1948)
The Train was on Time by Heinrich Böll