沉默中的盼望 ――《一聲不吭》，一部基督精神小説.

Und sagte kein einziges Wort (And Never Said a Word) is an early novel by the German author Heinrich Boll, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. This year is the 100th Birthday of this writer who was regarded as “the conscience of the nation”. Many current interpretations focused on themes such as “marriage” and “lower-class people”. This article analyzes its religious meaning and reads it as a Christian novel. Those who “never said a word” in the novel reflect Jesus Christ on the Cross as well as the lower-class people who struggled for a living in silence in post-war Germany. By analyzing the motive of “homecoming” in three different levels and revealing the three kinds of love depicted in the novel, this article investigates the theological problem in this literary work and bring Böll's “hope” to light: The disaster of war can only be overcome through a love in the form of sacrifice; The reconstruction and homecoming of spirit won't be possible without God's love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]