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17 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harvest Books, 2008

Ethical problems
At a play in NYC a few years ago when one character describes to another German children burned alive with napalm in the allied bombings, a playgoer behind me said, "good". In the shop today I was restoring a Nuernberg Trial document containing a photo (among others) of a German soldier executing a terrified nine-year-old. And here is Grass's autobiographical account of a kid in Nazi ...

Dog Years
Gunter Grass

Fawcett Crest, 1966

In this ferocious novel of the Hitler years and their aftermath, the author of THE TIN DRUM tells a brilliant, bizarre and savage tale ot the 'love-hate and blood brotherhood of Nazi and Jew

Crabwalk

28 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harcourt, 2003

Crabwalk
While the Wilhelm Gustloff sank in the Baltic Sea after being hit by three Soviet torpedos, Tulla Pokriefke was giving birth to her son, Paul, on one of the few deiced lifeboats. As they floated away from what is thus far the single greatest loss of life in maritime history, Paul's cries rang out. From that day onwards, his mother, overbearing and overopinionated, unable to leave the ship for the ...

Cat and Mouse

18 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harcourt, Inc., 1991

Why is it I always end up liking books I read in school?
Okay, I'll admit freely: "Katz und Maus" was required reading in school, which obviously biased me against it immediately. What's worse, it was German postwar literature, which never fails to be depressing and downbeat. I knew I was in for a greuling read. And then, suddenly, it wasn't. In fact, I started liking it from the first line, and carried on until the end, which I'd give away if I said ...

The Tin Drum

89 reviews
Gunter Grass

Secker & Warburg, 1962

Great symbolic book, but what does it all mean?
Yes, this is a lengthy book to slog through, but it is thoroughly enjoyable and completely unpredictable. The general plot has been told by other reviewers, so it will not be noted here. The chapter titles alone are enigmatic enough to keep you reading. My big question is what does it all mean? I'm sure the academic literary types have had a field day with this colossus! The tin drum is one ...

My Century

25 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harvest Books, 2000

Also sprach Gunter Grass
My growing up in the Netherlands in the sixties has not necessarily been the best way towards a longtime love affair with Germany, the Germans and their culture. In addition, I was one among many students to find out that becoming a German language teacher was not often the first career choice for many an aspiring educator, resulting in an anti-German attitude further enhanced by ignorance. In ...

Joakim Eskildsen: The Roma Journeys

1 review
Cia Rinne

Steidl, 2007

A stunningly rich portrait of contemporary Gypsy life
This book is wonderful for its abundance of truly great, intimate, revealing photographs -- and for its intelligent and insightful brief texts about a Gypsy culture that has been little understood for centuries. The book is arranged in seven main sections, each representing an in-depth insider's perspective of the daily lives of Roma Gypsies who live in communities in seven very different ...

The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)

5 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harvest Books, 1989

I can't believe it's out of print...
I read this book when it first came out (1980?), and have read, in English or German, 4 other novels by GG. All were wonderful, but this was my favorite. It's "magic realism" that's both thought-provoking and very entertaining, and so well-written and translated. It's really too bad that it's out of print.

The Tin Drum (Translated From the German by Ralph Manheim)

1 review
Gunter Grass

Pantheon Books, 1962

Complext Tale of a boy & his drum
From Front Jacket: "In form, 'The Tin Drum' is the autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, 30 years old, detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. It is taken down with the aid of his tin drum - the chosen symbol of his way of life - which helps him to remember his checkered past. Oaskar's father is a German, who runs a grocer's shop in Danzig and later becomes an ...

Die Blechtrommel

1 review
Gunter Grass

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993

great for those with very strong German
If you are reading this review, then you are thinking of buying a copy of a challenging, controversial, shocking, surreal, sacriligeous, disturbing and excellent novel that put Germany back on the literary map when it was published in 1958 and won its author almost instant world fame and a Nobel Prize for literature in 2000. A warning before I go on: Grass won fame because of his complex writing ...

The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass

Vintage Books/ Random House Inc, 1964

Most talked about novel on the American lterary scene

Dog Years

4 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965

The amazing conclusion to the Danzig Trilogy
First: If you decide to tackle the Danzig Trilogy, Reddick's critical analysis is indispensable. I suggest tackling it the same way I did: read The Tin Drum, start Reddick's book at the same time you start Cat and Mouse (Reddick reads faster than Grass, and you'll get through a lot of Reddick while tackling Grass), and when you've caught up, read Reddick's section on Dog Years and the actual ...

Too Far Afield

9 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harvest Books, 2001

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Having been recently impressed by Mr. Grass's new book, Crabwalk, I also found myself happy to have finally read The Tin Drum since then. Encouraged by those experiences, I decided it was time to read Too Far Afield, which was roundly criticized when it came out. I wondered how the book had stood the test of time in its views about German reunification. I came away feeling that I had read a ...

Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993
Gunter Grass

Harvest Books, 1996

These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Cat and Mouse and Other Writings (German Library)

2 reviews
Gunter Grass

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994

Okay for Grass Readers
I was ensnared into reading this book by the promising name of the author. While I do not regret having read this book, I do not think that this does measure up to the 'Tin Drum'. If you are planning to read Grass for the first time, tehn this is not the book to get started with. Some people, especially those who can not find fault with anything, least of all with literature, might say that the ...

Albrecht Durer and His Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
Giulia Bartrum

Princeton University Press, 2003

Albrecht Dürer is the most significant and admired artist of the northern Renaissance. Tracing his work and influence from his earliest career to his powerful posthumous role within German culture, this richly illustrated book surveys all of the artist's best-known prints as well as numerous drawings and watercolors. The catalogue of a greatly anticipated exhibition of Dürer's work in England--including loans of many precious works rarely seen ...

Katz Und Maus

1 review
Gunter Grass

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999

wunderbar!
Die Geschichte ist wirklick super muess ich sagen. Guenter Grass ist ein wohlgezeter Autor. Man fuehlt als ob man aller miterlebt. Du muesst "den grossen Malke" einfach kennenlernen!.

The Rat

8 reviews
Gunter Grass

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987

A Remarkable Book
One of the best books I have read in a long time. I agree that this book is very dense with symbolism, but I think that this is a virtue, not a fault. Grass orchestrates an amazing chaos through out the book, tying together themes as diverse as the death of fairy-tales, the destruction of the environment, human attitudes toward rats, and a host of other ideas, and somehow turns them into ...

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