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The Train Was on Time

Heinrich Böll

Paperback | Pages: 110 pages

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Title	:	The Train Was on Time
Author	:	Heinrich Böll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 110 pages
Published	:	April 27th 1994 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Cultural. Germany. Classics. War. Novels

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Heinrich Böll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the battle on the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanised by the thought that he is on the way to his death. As the train hurtles on, he riffs through prayers and memories, talks with other soldiers about what they've been through, and gazes desperately out the window at his country racing away. With mounting suspense, Andreas is gripped by one thought over all: Is there a way to defy his fate?

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Original Title:	Der Zug war pünktlich
ISBN:	0810111233 (ISBN13: 9780810111233)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Andreas (The Train Was on Time), Willi (The Train Was on Time), Olina (The Train Was on Time)
Setting:	Germany,1943 Poland,1943

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Der zug war punktlich = The Train Was on Time, Heinrich BöllThe Train Was on Time (German: Der Zug war pünktlich) is the first published novel by German author Heinrich Böll. It dates from 1949. The book centres on the story of a German soldier, Andreas, taking a train from Paris (France) to Przemyśl (Poland). The story focuses on the experience of German soldiers during the Second World War on the Eastern Front where fighting was particularly vicious and unforgiving; Böll had earlier explored

Heinrich Boll was a German Soldier during WW2 and so my guess is what we are reading here is a kind of memoir. Yes, it is beautifully written. Yes, I cannot fault the work that the translator did. But.This stream of conciousness novella about fear of death should have moved me to tears and it did not. Call me hard hearted but it did nothing for me at all; whilst other novels written by men (and women) who experienced warfare and delivered it as fiction have sometimes nearly broken my heart. This

I have spent much of my life, from around ten or eleven years old, looking for the answer, for something that would provide relief and allow me to, not exactly reconcile myself with The Fear, but at least be able to cope with those times when it sits on my chest and holds me down and pummels me in the face. Which is most days really. For years my relationship with The Fear which for other people may mean a number of things but which for me is a fear of dying has involved extreme panic attacks.

Now and again what appears to be a casually spoken word will suddenly acquire a cabalistic significance. It becomes charged and strangely swift, races ahead of the speaker, is destined to throw open a chamber in the uncertain confines of the future and to return to him with the deadly accuracy of a boomerang. Out of the smalltalk of unreflecting speech, usually from among those halting, colorless goodbyes exchanged beside trains on their way to death, it falls back on the speaker like a leaden

Reminds me of an art house film. Breaks reality by diving right into the knotty guts of it.

I liked Boll's book journalistic book about being imbedded with a platoon of soldiers. But The Train is fiction, and I'm not crazy about it. The book hangs on a structure of this soldier who is on a train anticipating when, in time and place, he will die. "Soon" is a word repeated over and over. There are some interesting character descriptions, but this "soon" thing got old. And he winds up the story with some pretty corny, cutesy, stuff involving a woman just as young and naïve as the

Actual rating 2.5/5 stars.Before picking this book up I had never heard of Heinrich Boll before. Upon reading the introduction I discovered that he was an extraordinary man who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. He lived through the turbulence of WWII, losing one child during it, and originally refused to join the Hitler Youth. He was later conscripted to the infantry before deserting after receiving four bullet wounds. Many aspects of this book, especially the thoughts and actions