num_pages: 247
description: The face of the clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and double standards have become a way of life. The Clown in the novel is a professional entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his an unhappy drunk abandoned by the woman he loves, too honest and disillusioned to compromise, he sits in his lonely furnished flat and calls for help or consolation of any kind. For this is a study in hypocrisy - emotional, sexual, religious and political - where the majority are smugly blinkered and the rest are caught in a trap they fail to understand, let alone escape.
language: English
title: The Clown
titlecomplete: The Clown
characters: Sabina Emonds, Karl Emonds, Mr. Derkum, Heinrich Behlen, Heribert Züpfner, Herbert Kalick, Mr. Schnier, Leo Schnier, Sommerwild, Marie Derkum, Hans Schnier, Edgar Wieneken, Bella Brosen, Monika Silvs, Fredebeul, Alfons Schnier, Kinkel, Zohnerer
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Germany, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 27958
places: Germany, Bonn
publisher: Calder and Boyars