by Günter Grass
434 Jan Wellem, popular name of John William, elector palatine, 1679-1716, whose equestrian statue stands on Düsseldorf market place.—Christian Dietrich Grabbe, 1801-36, German dramatist, who visited Düsseldorf and left it after a quarrel. Among his historical tragedies is the unfinished drama Hannibal.
518f Bundschuh and Poor Konrad, the monk Pfeiffer, Hipler and Geyer, the peasants of Mansfeld and Eichsfeld, etc. are all references to the Peasants’ War in South Germany in 1525. The Anabaptist Thomas Münzer (the Fury of Allstedt) was one of the leaders of the revolt. The insurgents were defeated at Frankenhausen and their leaders executed.
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In this ferocious novel of the Hitler years and their aftermath, the author of The Tin Drum tells a brilliant bizarre and savage tale of “the love-hate and blood brotherhood of Nazi and Jew… The strongest, most inventive writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945… Much of what is active conscience in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man’s ribald keeping.”—George Steiner, Commentary
Günter Grass was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927. Sculptor, draftsman, novelist, playwright and poet, he has traveled widely in the United States and Europe. He is presently living in Berlin with his Swiss wife and their children.
His first novel, The Tin Drum, published in 1963, has been translated into every major European language. Cat and Mouse has the same milieu as The Tin Drum—Danzig and its petty bourgeoisie. Dog Years is his third novel.
Mr. Grass has been internationally acclaimed as one of the most imaginative and powerful contemporary novelists. Time has called him “Probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war.”
Scan Notes, v3.0: Proofed carefully against DT, italics and special characters intact. This took a very long time to proof. It was long, but also many sentences are disjointed, stunted and do not make literal or grammatical sense. In many cases, words on a similar concept are run together to form an uberword. I checked all these against the DT, so though I may have missed some scanning mistakes, for the most part this is exactly how the novel appears in my DT.
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