Books by Gunter Grass

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOROn his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.

In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family.

Genudgivelse med forord af Kim Leine. Bliktrommen er en vildt og fantastisk fabulerende skælme- og udviklingsroman. Det er beretningen om dværgen Oskar Matzeraths opvækst i Hitlertidens Tyskland. Om hans forunderlige liv fra han som treårig beslutter sig for at holde op med at vokse og falder ned ad en trappe, til han som 30-årig, anklaget for mord og indlagt på en anstalt for sindslidende, begynder at fortælle om sit liv. En ’misdannelsesroman’ er den blevet kaldt, for Oskar Matzerath er en outsider. En særling der betragter verden og voksenlivet med et vist dæmonisk klarsyn, på én gang forstærket og forvrænget. For at overleve sine traumer og den barske virkelighed udvikler han to særlige talenter: dels har han sin bliktromme, som kan tromme fortiden frem og protestere mod en til tider grotesk voksenverden, og dels sin stemme, der kan få glas til at splintre – en stemme han ofte retter mod den passive, konservative og småborgerlige verden, han hader af hele sit hjerte. Bliktrommen er et hovedværk i det 20. århundredes litteratur. Det er historien om Anden Verdenskrig og Tysklands forkrøblede historie fortalt af en uforglemmelig stemme. Romanen udkom første gang på dansk i 1961 i Mogens Boisens oversættelse. Denne udgave er en nyoversættelse ved Per Øhrgaard.

The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose and drawings, Grass creates his final, major work of art.

This work, part of the "German Library" series, contains translations of two major works by Gunter Grass: "Cat and Mouse" and "The Meeting at Telgte". The book also includes a political essay by Grass.

Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life.

Gives the reader an insight into a key moment in the life of modern Europe. This title also provides an insight into the creative process as the reader witnesses ideas for novels occurring and then taking shape. It presents both a personal journal by a creative artist and a commentary on European history.

In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gunter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives.

Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.

Although this novel (published four years before Grass won the Nobel Prize) ranges from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the following year's unification of Germany, the author's basic obsession is - through cryptic references and allusions - with the past two centuries of German history.

The satire is sharp, the analysis precise, and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions' - The New YorkerFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum comes a satire of european politics and a love story.

To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both discomfort and distress - fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero.

Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt.

Gunter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today.

In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration.

I Grass' store erindringsværk, NÅR LØGET SKRÆLLES, spillede han på to billeder på erindring: Insektet i en ravklump som billede på det knivskarpe minde og løget som billede på blikket, der sløres og ser uklart. MØRKEKAMMERHISTORIER spiller videre på erindring som en vekselvirkning mellem klarhed og tvivl. Fra midten af 1950'erne til sin død i 1997 var fotografen Marie Rama Grass' trofaste assistent og veninde. Med sit gamle Agfa-Box-kamera, som havde overlevet krigen, dokumenterede hun den voksende Grass-families liv og levned. MØRKEKAMMERHISTORIER former sig som et eventyr i ni dele. Grass' egne og sammenbragte børn fra to ægteskaber - i alt otte - fortæller med hver deres fiktionaliserede stemme i levende dialoger om livet med deres berømte far, om barndommens glæder og sorger og Maries fantastiske billeder, der på samme tid kunne indfange fortid og fremtid, ønsker og angst. MØRKEKAMMERHISTORIER fortsætter erindringssporet fra forrige bog med blik på familieliv og børn, samtidig med at bogen er en hyldest til den kvinde, der hjalp Grass på vej som kunstner og dokumenterede hans voksende berømmelse som forfatter og kunstner. Bogen indeholder forfatterens egne humoristiske tegninger af Marie Rama.