The Post-war Works of Heinrich Böll and the Questions of Humanism

Abstract

The article analyzes the views of the writer and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, who was considered the “Conscience” of the German people, on the
issues of man and conscience, and how humanity is tested in the most difficult times, in his work. The analysis was conducted by comparing the methods of narrating about a person’s life and his place in society in the author’s early works - short stories and novellas - and the changes in narrative style and expression in the writer’s later major novels.