The image of the world and man in the works of Wolfgang Borchert’s Draußen vor der Tür (1947) and Heinrich Bölls Wo warst du, Adam? (1951)

Abstract

This article discusses selected aspects of the creation of the image of the world and man in selected literary works of early post-war literature on the example of the works of the most important representatives of this period – Wolfgang Borchert and Heinrich Böll. The creators of the so-called literature of ruins revealed the experience of total destruction of man as an individual deprived of individuality, emphasized the moral decline of the war and post-war world.