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The Train Was on Time

Heinrich Böll

Paperback | Pages: 110 pages

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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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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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Title	:	The Train Was on Time
Author	:	Heinrich Böll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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

September 1943. A young German soldier boards a troop train bound for the Eastern front which is collapsing under the heavy onslaught of the Russians. Andreas must be the most reluctant soldier in the whole of Hitler's Wehrmacht. Above all else, he is convinced that he will meet his death at the end of the line. Over the next three days, Heinrich Boll recreates the soldier's train journey in faithful, dreary detail. His companions are Willi, quick on his feet and in perpetual need of a shave,

Heinrich Boll, where have your books been all my life? This tight, haunting novel is god damn awesome. Period.And thank you, Melville House for reisssuing these in such attractive editions. I've got The Safety Net atop my "to read" pile . . . .

Enter the twilight zone...This is a remarkable book that is only about 100 pages long. The author, Heinrich Boll, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. It's clear as to why he won the Prize after reading this book. It's a well-written European Classic. I forget how I discovered it. I think I saw it listed as required reading for a Literature class somewhere in New York. It's about a German Soldier and his adventure on a train as he envisions and wonders how he will die. The 'Twilight Zone'

The Train Was on Time was down to a tee. Heinrich Boll won the Nobel Prize for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature... Ditto.What I found very interesting is that, as well as in The Clown there is that guy- an unheroic hero who seems powerless to resist to his own fate... Although, the novella seldom loses its tension, I did find myself reminiscing Hans, displaced



Published in 1949, The Train Was on Time was Heinrich Boll's first book about a German soldier returning from leave and going to the eastern front. He believes he is going to die on the eastern front and as the train moves nearer to the east, he maps out his place of death, the hours he has left and places and things he'll never see again. He'll die 'soon', and how long or short is 'soon'? It can be a long time, a short time and how ambiguous 'soon' is in time.