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The Tin Drum

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Tin Drum written by Günter Grass and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1964 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest German novel since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, thirty years old, detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. On the day of his third birthday, Oskar had "declared, resolved, and determined [to] stop right there, remain as I was, stay the same size, cling to the same attire" (striped pullover and patent-leather shoes). That same day Oskar receives his first tin drum, and from then on it is the means of his expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from the past as well as judgments about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. As that era ebbs bloodily away, as drum succeeds drum, Oskar participates in the German postwar economic miracle -- working variously in the black market, as an artist's model, in a troupe of traveling musicians. With the onset of affluence and fame, Oskar decides to grow a few inches, only to develop a humpback. But despite his newfound status (and stature), Oskar remains haunted by the deaths of his parents, afflicted by his responsibility for past sins -- and so assumes guilt for a murder he did not commit as an act of atonement and an opportunity to find consolation.The rhythms of Oskar's drums are intricate and insistent, and they lead us, often by way of shocking fantasies, through the dark forest of German history. Through Oskar's piercing, outspoken voice and deformed little figure, through the imaginative distortion and exaggeration of historical experience, a pathetically hilarious yet startlingly true portrayal of the human situation comes into view.

Peeling the Onion

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156035347
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Peeling the Onion written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion--which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.

The Günter Grass Reader

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151011766
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Günter Grass Reader written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Of All That Ends

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544787633
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Of All That Ends written by Günter Grass and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A final book like no other” from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Tin Drum: poetry and meditations on writing, aging, and living until the end (The Irish Times). In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, Günter Grass weaves his life’s reflections together into a witty and elegiac swansong: love letters, soliloquies, jealous musings, social satire, and moments of happiness long to be shared. As the inimitable German fabulist lives his remaining days, his passion for writing spurs in him new life. His final work is a creation filled with wisdom and defiance. In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose, and drawings, this diverse assemblage is a moving farewell gift—a sensual, melancholy summation of a life fully lived. “Elegant musings on dying and, most poignantly, living.” —Kirkus Reviews “A glorious gift, a final salute true to the singular creativity of the most human, and humane, of artists.” —The Irish Times “A thoughtful, uncompromising meditation on death and aging . . . He describes loss, change, and memory with a combination of melancholy and wit.” —Publishers Weekly

Cat and Mouse

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156155519
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Cat and Mouse written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Too Far Afield

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156014168
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Too Far Afield written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel will stand as perhaps the most complex and challenging exploration of what Germany's recent unification will mean, for Germans on both sides of the former divide, for Europeans, and for the rest of the world.

Two States - One Nation

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780436200175
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Two States - One Nation written by Günter Grass and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Diary of a Snail

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473522536
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From the Diary of a Snail written by Günter Grass and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.

Crabwalk

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156029704
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Crabwalk written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gnter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's suffering. Crabwalk is at once a captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past.

The Flounder

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156319355
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Flounder written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immortal fisherman catches an immortal talking fish in the Stone Age, and they live eternally until modern times in Germany, bound by the man's insatiable pregnant wife and entanglements with various female cooks. The narrating fisherman uses his predicament to comment on gender and nutrition in society, as well as gloat over the fish's second capture and subsequent trial by women for his historical role in subjugating women.

Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass

Author : John Reddick
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156238298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass written by John Reddick and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes, and symbols. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

My Century

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571203123
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book My Century written by Günter Grass and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.

Dog Years

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448180082
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Dog Years written by Günter Grass and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration.

Show Your Tongue

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Show Your Tongue written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunter Grass and his wife, Ute, spent six months in Calcutta, 1987-1988. Throughout, Grass kept a diary in words and drawings that record everyday sights: the poverty, the heat, the resigned anxiety of those who no longer have anything to wait for. Showing one's tongue in Bengali is an experession of shame. And shame is what Grass, as a man and as a citizen of one of the most prosperous countries in the world, feels about the human condition in India. -- taken from p. 4 of cover.

In the Egg and Other Poems

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Egg and Other Poems written by Günter Grass and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New Poems (1968). The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Box

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140708724X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Box written by Günter Grass and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory - they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of Marie, Grass's assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his work. But her images offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, grant the wishes in visual form of those photographed. The children speculate on the nature of this magic: was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

Author : Peter O. Arnds
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132871
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum written by Peter O. Arnds and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these "asocials," for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that through intertextuality with the European fairy-tale tradition, the picaresque novels of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, and through an array of carnivalesque figures Grass creates an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a Stunde Null, that putative tabula rasa of 1945."--BOOK JACKET.