Hitler's rise and fall is seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers are symbolic of the grave forces dominating the German troops of that period. Grass uses magic realism to explore the dark roots of power and creativity.
Hitler's rise and fall is seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers are symbolic of the grave forces dominating the German tro...
In this novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during World War II. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family.
In this novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during World War II. He explores the sinking of the Wi...
Offers an account of the author's modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.
Offers an account of the author's modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, Th...
Bitter and impassioned, this novel delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925-1955 through the eyes of Oskar, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his childhood fantastically counterpoints the horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
Bitter and impassioned, this novel delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925-1955 through the eyes of Oskar, the dwarf whose manic beating...
To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known to the nation as The Great Mahlke but remains a target to his enemies. He is different, and doomed.
To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driv...
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose and drawings, Grass creates his final, major work of art.
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. In a str...
Günter Grass (1927-2015), německý spisovatel, sochař a výtvarník, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu (1999), napsal Živé sochy v srpnu 2003. V Grassově pozůstalosti fragment objevila jeho dlouholetá spolupracovnice Hilke Ohsoling a dosud neznámý text vyšel v nakladatelství Steidl v roce 2022, není tedy obsažen v souborném vydání celého Grassova díla Neue Göttinger Ausgabe z roku 2020. Východiskem příběhu je turistická prohlídka soch naumburského dómu, z nichž zejména legendární markraběnka Uta fascinuje vypravěče natolik, že si k ní začne domýšlet...
Günter Grass (1927-2015), německý spisovatel, sochař a výtvarník, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu (1999), napsal Živé sochy v srpnu 2003. ...
