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 Selected Poems 1956-1993 - Gunter Grass
 Selected Poems 1956-1993 - Gunter Grass ... preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - as a mixture of expressionist grotesquerie and political outspokenness that has characterized his fiction.Newest Review: ... tions. Here you can easily see that there will be some work to be done in your own translations, *from* the ... more ... English... And just the taster of those three lines gives some clues to how it sounds in the native tongue for which it was intended, gutteral, lumpen, masculine, hardly ever prosaic or sonically attractive. Prophet's Fare is another poem along to come along shortly, and is a decent political allegory. As theediscerning tried to suggest above, Grass's concerns are of the politics of the day, and however overtly, he is nearly always to be found lambasting something to do with society or those in power. In this volume...more |
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Selected Poems 1956-1993 - Gunter Grass: "You like difficult subjects, don't you?" (1389 words)
by - written on 23/11/02 (Very useful, 508 readings)
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The title of this op comes from a comment theediscerning's friend MALU left after another of his ops - you'll just have to read them all to find which one. And here it has to be said, that theediscerning has come up with a bit of a challenge worthy of anyone. Probably, too, MALU is much better qualified to write about the subject, both being German. And it is, of course, hoped she will forgive theediscerning for the quotation. Guenter Grass (for that is how one should spell him if one is too lazy to look for an umlaut) is one of the major names in German literature, of a kind that theediscerning cannot think of a British comparison. He is respected, ... Read the complete review
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