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Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780151011766
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Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Germany
ISBN :
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of this classic novel, an acclaimed translator and scholar has drawn from many sources for this new translation, more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HMH
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544787633
“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
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156035347
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.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156155519
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
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Confederation of states
ISBN : 9780156920605
A collection of public addresses against German reunification.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473522536
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.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156014168
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the story of two old men in Berlin -- one a former East German cultural functionary, the other a former mid-level spy -- observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Grass weaves a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9780571203123
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.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
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.