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His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection
Daily Telegraph
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
My most-admired contemporary novelist
John Ashbery
His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection
Daily Telegraph
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
My most-admired contemporary novelist
John Ashbery
His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection
Daily Telegraph
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
My most-admired contemporary novelist
John Ashbery