![]() ![]() Because of Grass's singular storytelling virtuosity, ICat and Mouse/I is marvelously entertaining, powerful, and full of funny episodes. ![]() This incident sets off a wild series of utterly "Grassian" events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. The provocative story centers on the narrator's vivid recollection of a boyhood scene in which a black cat is provoked to pounce on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition of the modern world. ![]() The Danzig Trilogy contains three of the author's most acclaimed works.Īcclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. In 1999, Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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