Quote on Literature and Responsibility by Heinrich Böll

„Contemporary literature bears a responsibility for which it is not equipped.“

Heinrich BöllHeinrich Böll on the responsibility and limits of contemporary literature—a concise quote about literature’s role in society.
PreviousNext

Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll reflects critically on social responsibility and the limits of contemporary literature.


Translation or original: 🇩🇪Click here

Quelle: Hier klicken

i

3.0 / 5

Heinrich Böll quote about literature and responsibility

Heinrich Theodor Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne. As a narrator of postwar German literature, he depicted urban destruction, the hunger and hardship of survivors, and the homecoming and disillusionment of returning soldiers. His well-known short stories include “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa…,” “The Bread of Our Early Years,” and “Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences.”

C. S. Lewis quote about literature and realityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." C. S. Lewis
Read more
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote about art, religion, and salvationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes." Hans-Georg Gadamer
Read more
Neil Postman quote image about reading as a serious intellectual activityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity." Neil Postman
Read more
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Heinrich Böll: Quote About Declining Sales and FearQuote by Heinrich Böll about declining sales and fearCopyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkInspirational quote image featuring Heinrich BöllCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“It Is No Art to Be an Honest Man” – Heinrich Böll