“Carnival is vulgar” – Quote by Heinrich Böll

„Carnival is vulgar, with all the grandeur and all the terrors of the vulgar, but never frivolous.“

Heinrich BöllHeinrich Böll on the grandeur and terrors of the vulgar: a striking quote about carnival and society.
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Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll portrays carnival as a vulgar yet impressive and unsettling social phenomenon.


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