The Joker's View

Heinrich Burr's novels

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The Clown's View is a German writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature Heinrich Boll One of the representative works of. novel. Created in 1963. Mainly write West Germany The experiences of the little people in the post-war "economic miracle" are called the important works of "disobedience literature" formed in this period. There is a film of the same name adapted from this novel (1976).

Chinese name: The Joker's View
Alias: The Clown
Author: Heinrich Boll

Foreign name: Ansichten eines Clowns
Creation era: 1963
Origin: The Joker's View
literary genre: novel

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《 The Joker's View 》(1963) is Germany (formerly Federal Republic of Germany ）Writer and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll One of the representative works of. Hans Schneier, the hero of the novel, was born in the big boss family of Bonn coal mine. His father is a millionaire. Hans could not stand the hypocritical and vulgar environment around him. At the age of 21, he resolutely ran away from home and became a clown actor. He lived with Mary, a devout Catholic without formal marriage, which was illegal and immoral in the eyes of the church and the world. Later, Mary left him and married a rich and powerful Catholic, which severely traumatized Hans' soul. Six years later, when he was 27 years old, he returned to Bonn and sat on the railway station square singing, becoming a beggar, but his protest singing was drowned in the joy of the carnival, when Mary was returning from Rome on her honeymoon. The author compressed the plot of the novel into one day, and through flashback, from the perspective of Schneier, an outsider Ethics , ideology, etc. have made comprehensive disclosure, satire and criticism, believing that all these are related to natural person Incompatible. The novel consists of the monologue, telephone conversation and memory of the first person narrator. The final bitter ending of the clown makes the work shrouded in an atmosphere of pessimism and disappointment, but the clown is a challenging image.^[1]

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Heinrich Boll (Heinrich Boll, 1917-1985), German writer. Born in a sculptor's family in Kolen. In 1939, he studied at Colleen University Germanic languages Literature, enlisted in the army in the same year until the Second World War end. Have been injured. He was once a prisoner. The fascist war is abhorrent. He began to publish short stories in 1947 and became a professional writer in 1951. His early works are based on the Second World War, aiming to explore the various disasters brought to Germany and its nation by the war. 5、 In the 1960s, his works mainly wrote about the experiences of the little people in the post-war "economic miracle" of West Germany. In the 1970s, his creation reached its peak from content to form. He became famous for his outstanding achievements“ Ruins literature ”The bearer of the tripod. Burr's novel writing techniques basically follow Critical realism Traditional, but also used some Western modernist techniques. Most of his works are reminiscent. When narrating the story, the concept of time and space is reversed and leaping. When portraying the characters, he uses a lot of inner monologue. In 1972, "in order to praise his works, these works have both a broad perspective of the times and exquisite techniques to shape characters, and help German Literature Revitalization of The Nobel Prize in Literature 。 Representative works include novellas《 arrive on schedule 》, the novel The Clown's View《 Group photo with a lady 》、《 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 》Etc.^[2]

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On the theme of "father son relationship" from Judgement and The Clown's View (excerpt) (by Yu Juan)

Kafka's Judgment was written in 1912, when Austro Hungarian Empire Reign. Although a new era has arrived, the old order is still stubborn and strong. The Judgment is Kafka's early published work. The author uses a short space to show the readers“ Patriarchy ”The next "father image" is lofty and autocratic, and the "son image" is small and timid against this right. Burr's The Clown's View is a novel published in the early 1970s, which mainly criticizes the purpose of capitalist supremacy of interests and dissatisfaction with Catholicism. Chapter 15 of the novel describes a meeting between the hero and his father Psychological description It shows the indifference between people after the German War. This article will compare the images of "father son relationship" in the two works from three aspects of writing techniques, father's attitude and son's attitude, and find out its profound historical background and the literary school characteristics of the works.

1、 Creation technique. From the perspective of narrative mode, the third person omniscient narrator is used in Judgment. Compared with the first person narrator, the third person narrator has the effect of "looking up". This "look up" is used to express“ Patriarchy ”My father son relationship is just right. There is a description in the work that when the father calls his son, his son "Georg immediately kneels down beside his father". This action vividly describes the son's frightened but unconditional obedience when facing his father, and the feeling of "looking up" arises spontaneously. In Burr's The Clown's View, the author uses the first person narrator, which is a first person narrator created by the author according to the needs of the work. The "I" in the work is not the author himself. The corresponding first person has a "head up" effect here. In the work, the son can talk with the father face to face, and the father and son can talk on an equal mechanism. These two works use different narrators. The former follows the traditional narrative method, and also reflects the mode of "father as child". The latter adopted the unusual first person, which gave the son a chance to "look at" his father. Judging from the tense, the Judgment mainly uses the past tense, so when the reader reads the text, he has a sense of indirectness and time and space, which can only be used to examine the characters in the work with the eyes of onlookers, and it is a passive reading. In The Clown's View, the chapter of father son meeting is mainly composed of dialogue and Inner monologue Therefore, the present tense is used most frequently, and what is shown to the readers is the ongoing events. The readers are involved in the events and share the fate with the characters in the works. It is an active reading. In terms of details, there are two places in the Judgment“ Georg Surprised, even on this sunny morning, his father's room was still so dark "and" Father asked, putting a large newspaper on the windowsill, putting his glasses on the newspaper, and covering his glasses with one hand This action is also meaningful. Glasses are used to read newspapers. Newspapers are the media connecting with the outside world. This action of father shows his authority and exclusive status. The most striking detail description in The Clown's View lies in the adjectives used by the author when his father spoke, such as "coldly, doubtfully, coldly, angrily, painfully, despairingly, nervously, and powerlessly". This is the attitude of a father when he meets his own son. Readers can only read strangeness and indifference from it, just like a "wall" between father and son. It can be seen from the comparison that from the third person to the first person, from the bystander to the participant, from never exceeding to unfamiliar indifference, in this process, the eyes slowly move to "people themselves", gradually jump out of the shackles, and move towards a more and more self and independent side