1963, ISBN: 980e958396ae81b1a0ffcba94a991b30

New York. 1963. Pantheon Books. Later Printing. Pen Mark On Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. hardcover. keywords:… More...

New York. 1963. Pantheon Books. Later Printing. Pen Mark On Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Germany . FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE TIN DRUM (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, and the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (DANZIG TRILOGY). It takes the form of the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. With an adult's capacity for thought and perception, he decides never to grow up when he hears his father declare that he would become a grocer. Gifted with a piercing shriek that can shatter glass or be used as a weapon, Oskar declares himself to be one of those ‘auditory clairvoyant babies', whose ‘spiritual development is complete at birth and only needs to affirm itself'. Oskar uses a tin drum as a primary means of 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, 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. inventory #24339, 0<

1969, ISBN: 980e958396ae81b1a0ffcba94a991b30

Middlesex. 1969. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Modern European Poets Series Paperback Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Penguin Modern Euro… More...

Middlesex. 1969. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Modern European Poets Series Paperback Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Penguin Modern European Poets series. Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger & Christopher Middleton. 88 pages. paperback. D106. Cover photo of Günter Grass by Hans Rama. keywords: Poetry Literature Germany Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Günter Grass, famous as a novelist, is here presented as a poet in a selection from his three published volumes. Grass's belief that an artist, however committed he may be in life, should be only a jester in art, is admirably practised in these poems in which fantasy, ingenuity and humour are substitutes for didacticism, and no word, thing or idea is too sacrosanct to be played with. Even in the recent controversial political poems, which come close to blurring his division between life and art, Grass's tremendous zest and sensuous response are felt. Penguin Modern European Poets is designed to present, in verse translations, the work of significant poets of this century for readers unfamiliar with the original languages. The series already includes Yevtushenko, Rilke, Apollinaire, Prevert, Quasimodo, a volume of Greek poets, Holub, Herbert and Enzensberger. inventory #37313, 0<

1974, ISBN: 980e958396ae81b1a0ffcba94a991b30

4., erw. Aufl. Berlin: Colloquium; 1974 20 cm. 94 S. mit 1 Abb., 1 Schriftprobe. OPp. - Tadellos. = Köpfe des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bd. 38. 1974, 0