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GUNTER's
MASTERPIECES
1999
Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature
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the very top
The
Tin Drum -- Gunter Grass
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.
My
Century : A Novel of Stories -- Gunter Grass(Translator),
Michael Henry Heim (Translator)
- a more extensive listing of Gunter Grass' works ...
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- The
Call of the Toad
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
/
- Cat
and Mouse
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
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- Cat
and Mouse and Other Writings (German Library, Vol 93)
- Gunter Grass(Editor), et al 1994
- Cat
and Mouse and Other Writings (German Library, Vol 93)
- Gunter Grass(Editor), et al 1994
- Dog
Years
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1989
- Four
Plays; Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The
Wicked Cooks
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Martin Esslin (Translator)
1967
- From
the Diary of a Snail
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1973
- Graphics
and Writing
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1983
- Headbirths
or the Germans Are Dying Out
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1990
- Local
Anaesthetic
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1989
- Max;
A Play
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1972
- Meeting
at Telgte
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1990
- Novemberland
: Selected Poems 1956-1993
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Michael Hamburger
(Translator) 1996
- The
Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising; A German Tragedy
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1966
- The
Rat
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1989
- River
in Dry Grass
- Pete A. Y. Gunter 1985
- Show
Your Tongue
- Gunter Grass(Translator), John E. Woods (Translator)
1989
- Speak
Out!; Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries
- Gunter Grass(Introduction), et al 1969
- The
Tin Drum
- Gunter Grass 1999
- The
Tin Drum (Vintage International)
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
1990
- Two
States--One Nation?
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1991
- Two
States-One Nation?
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1990
- The
Call of the Toad
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 1992
- Cat
and Mouse
- Gunter Grass 1978
- Chancen
Tatiger Resignation : Zur Melancholischen Struktur in Gunter
Grass Romand Die Rattin
- Andrej Schulz 1997
- The
Danzig Trilogy : The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years
- Grass(Translator), et al 1996
- The
Danzig Trilogy : The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years
- Gunter Grass 1987
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- Die
Rezeption Von Heinrich Boll Und Gunter Grass in Den U S A :
Bol Und Gross in Spiege
- T. Schaller 1988
- Etchings
and Words, 1972-1982 (SPECIAL)
- Gunter Grass(Translator), et al 1985
- Fisherman
and His Wife : Gunter Grass's the Flounder in Critical
Perspective
- Siegfried Mews(Editor) 1983
- Grass
and Grimmelshause : Gunter Grass Das Treffen in Telte and
Rezeptionstherie
- Susan Anderson 1987
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- Gunter
Grass & His Critics
- Siegfried Mews 1998
- Gunter
Grass : Asthetik Des Engagements
- Gunter Grass 1996
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- Gunter
Grass Revisited (Twayne's World Authors Series, Twas 879)
- Patrick O'Neill 1999
- Gunter
Grass's Der Butt : Sexual Politics and the Male Myth of
History
- Philip Brady, et al 1990
- GUnter
Grass: Ein EuropAischer Autor?(Amsterdamer Beitrage zur
neueren Germanistik 35)
- Dick van STEKELENBURG , Gerd LABROISSE 1992
- GUnter
Grass: Ein EuropAischer Autor?(Amsterdamer Beitrage zur
neueren Germanistik 35)
- Gerd Labroisse(Editor), Dick Van Stekelenburg (Editor)
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- Metaphors
in Grass' Die Blechtrommel
- Antoinette T. Delaney
- My
Century : A Novel of Stories
- Gunter Grass(Translator), Michael Henry Heim (Translator)
1999
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