#gunter grass

[macrolit]

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[poemsliz]

[dare-g]

Books 11-20 of the year 📖!

[lunamarish]

Non ci sono più eroi da romanzo, perché gli individualisti non esistono più, perché l’individualismo va scomparendo, perché l’uomo è solo, ogni uomo egualmente solo, senza diritto a una solitudine individuale, e fa parte di una massa senza nome e senza eroi.

Gunter Grass

[rafaelmartinez67]

Primero tintinearon los vasos,

luego nosotros, a dos voces,

pero nada se hizo añicos.

(Gunter Grass)

[yelyahnaloj]

Unpopular German Literature

I was tasked to "weed" the German literature at my college, all the books that are being taken off the shelves supposedly hadn't been checked out in years so they were getting rid of them to make room for other books. (Supposedly, the books that they are weeding are books that could also be checked out in interlibrary loan from other colleges.)

I took pictures of books or titles that caught my eye for entertainment or just in case I wanted to find them again or learn more. I thought I would share them:

Simone. by Lion Feuchtwanger (Goodreads)

This is apparently a Joan of Arc spin off story?

The Spell by Hermann Broch (LA Times review)

From the Diary of a Snail by Gunter Grass (Kirkus Reviews)

The Call of the Toad by Gunter Grass (Independent review)

(looked at the summary hoping it was a story about toads)

Show Your Tongue by Gunter Grass (Outlook India review)

Has a lot of illustrations

Briefe (German language) by Hermann Hesse (Worldcat)

This caught my eye because it was a Hermann Hesse book. I actually tried putting this on hold, and if that doesn't work maybe trying to catch the librarians tomorrow. According to Worldcat there might not be any other library copy to check out in the country?

Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen (The Paris Review)

[radiogornjigrad]

GINTER GRAS: ''ONO ŠTO SE MORA REĆI''

”ONO ŠTO SE MORA REĆI” . Zašto ćutim, zašto toliko dugo ne rekoh ni riječi, Šta me to sprječava, Kad je jasno da su na pomolu Ratne igre, na kraju kojih, mi preživjeli Svedeni bivamo na uzgredno, a da ih nismo htjeli? Postalo je valjanim pravo na preventivni napad, Koji bi mogao uništiti sav narod iranski, Vođen od komedijaša nekog, Što ga raspaljuje planski. Pretpostavljaju, da sprema atomsku…

[anokatony]

Gone, but not Forgotten Redux

  In 2013 I posted ‘Gone but not Forgotten’ in which I highlighted authors who made a strong vivid impression on me and who had recently died. Now, ten years later, it is time again to remember those who have left us recently. This is a personal list of authors who may or may not have been all that famous but who had at least one work that I found impressive. Günter Grass (1927 – 2015) The German…

[robynsassenmyview]

Just a boy and his Bengal tiger

"Just a boy and his tiger", a review of 'The Life of Pi' for the National Theatre Live, until 31 August.

“YOU scare me, but when I am with you, I feel better,” says Pi to Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger. Photograph courtesy National Theatre Live. VERY OCCASIONALLY, THE world offers you an experience which is so utterly perfect in how it touches you, intellectually and spiritually, emotionally and with quirkiness, that it will change how you look at the world. This is what you can expect in the…

[teamkrissy]

So I read The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, not knowing anything about the book or the author beforehand. The book is about a boy who stunts his own growth in Danzig, Germany right before World War II and then follows his life through it and after it. At one point, the boy joins the Nazis as an entertainer. It was published in 1956 and translated into several languages shortly after. It came to be known as a post-war classic.

The day after I finish a novel by an author I don't know, I always look up their bio and interviews. This is when I find out that in 2006 Gunter Grass came out as having, himself, been a Nazi for 2 years in his youth.

So this book (his first novel, I believe) had been read by people all over the world for 50 years and everyone is shocked. They had believed he was anti-war, anti-military and a communist up until this point. But like had anyone asked him? What was his excuse before that? I can't find any articles from before 2006 about it, but I don't understand how young men in Germany in the time of Nazis, who weren't being actively exterminated, could not be Nazis? It doesn't really add up, unless he lied at some point, what did they think he was doing in Germany in 1945? Like how were they really shocked?

[book0ftheday]

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, first published in 1959, translated into English from German in 1961 by Ralph Manheim, this edition printed 1990. Cover illustration by Angela Arnet.

[macrolit]

Cat and Mouse, Gunter Grass FYI - this is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

[poemsliz]

To pass the time by Gunter Grass

[dare-g]

Books 33 through 42 of the year!

[sivavakkiyar]

one of those things I think is kind of funny in the Jameson ‘novel as National epic’ thesis is that just as Joyce, kind of the ur-example, specifically makes his protagonist a Jewish Irishman (so to a degree as alienated from the nationalists as he is from the colonial situation), so does Rushdie make his main character in Midnight’s Children a Kashmiri (his grandfather says ‘Independence! Independence! What does it have to do with me? The Indians are always complaining about something…’)

[lululeighsworld]

"I will help you to ensure the strike is clean, milady. But you must be the one to initiate the act."