Local Anaesthetic is a 1969 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It tells the story of an idealistic high-school teacher who believes society, like a pupil, is learning from experience and reason.
Peeling the Onion is an autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass, published in 2006. It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig when the Second World War breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, The Tin Drum.
My Century is a novel written by German author Günter Grass. Having published many significant novels in the postwar period, he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Each chapter in My Century is only a few pages long. Each focuses on a single year from 1900-1999. The story of each year is told differently, …
The Flounder is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It is loosely based on the fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife.
《蟹行》,是曾得过诺贝尔文学奖的德国作家君特·格拉斯,在2002年出版的小说,和纳粹时期威廉·古斯特洛夫号邮轮沉没的海难有关。和君特·格拉斯以往的作品一様,小说中关注许多之前事件的影响,小说中结合了许多事实和虚构的内容。虽然威廉·古斯特洛夫被大卫·法兰克福谋杀以及威廉·古斯特洛夫号邮轮沉没都是真实事件,不过借由虚构的Pokriefke家族,将这些事件带到了不同的时间背景下。 …
Cat and Mouse, published in Germany in 1961 as Katz und Maus, is a novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. The narrator Pilenz "alone could be termed his friend, if it were possible to be …