by Heinrich Böll · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432230240
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«Acto de servicio» is the novel by German writer Heinrich Böll, published by Seix Barral in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
The judge of a small town faces an unusual trial: behind the strange crime of the accused emerges the whole town, its characters and relationships, and society at large. Böll attacks the state and its determination to confine the individual with concepts, language, and forms, in a harsh, ironic, agile, and surprising narrative.
Originally published in 1966 under the title «Ende einer Dienstfahrt»; this Spanish edition appeared in 1984 in the Biblioteca de Bolsillo collection.
For readers of 20th-century European fiction and German literature who appreciate social satire and criticism of institutions.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
