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, …
Flundran är en roman från 1977 av den västtyske författaren Günter Grass. Den utspelar sig i trakten kring dagens Gdańsk, från förhistorisk tid och fram till bokens samtid. Handlingen tar avstamp i bröderna Grimms saga "Fiskaren och hans fru", och blandar skildringen av en graviditet med mytologiserad könskonflikt och …
Krabbans gång är en novell av Günter Grass med originaltiteln Im Krebsgang som publicerades på tyska 2002 och i svensk översättning av Lars W Freij 2003. I novellen dokumenterar och förmedlar författaren på ett multiperspektiviskt och mångbottnat sätt delar av den tyska 1900-talshistorien. I novellen skriver Grass om …
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 …