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Gunter Grass Cat and Mouse (Paperback) Danzig
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- Book Title
- Cat and Mouse
- Publication Name
- Cat and Mouse
- Title
- Cat and Mouse
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0156155516
- EAN
- 9780156155519
- ISBN
- 9780156155519
- Edition
- Harvest/HBJ ed.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 31/10/1991
- Release Year
- 1991
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 6.2 Oz
- Series
- Danzig
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Topic
- Classics, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156155516
ISBN-13
9780156155519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50651
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cat and Mouse
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
6.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt2613.R338k313 1991
Reviews
"'Gunter Grass' second novel is quite different in character from The Tin Drum." less of a showcase for an obstreperous talent (although there are still scenes of caricature and occasional scabrous humor), it is a more controlled book and far more internalized. This time the German-realist-surrealist, while again using many symbolic allusions, has subdued some of the abstractions, some of the elements of the absurd. The latter is chiefly apparent in the physical disfigurement of the central character which again singularizes him: the demonic Oskar Matzerath was a dwarf; now it is the protuberant Adam's apple which jumps conspicuously like a mouse, the neck of Mahlke whose story is told by his friend Pilenz. Both boys grow up together in a small Danzig town and the always solicitous, increasingly admiring Pilenz follows Mahlke, in a sense an unlikely hero, odd, quiet, solemn, devout, as he performs his amazing feats. These extend from the childish games, when- as an underwater diver- he brings up trophies from a sunken minesweeper in the bay, to the atrocities of war and his spectacular performance in action. Little by little, however, there is the erosion of the individual by the system and Mahlke, the "mouse", the "clown", but most of all the "redeemer" with his resounding faith, goes deliberately to his death. It is the gesture of the individual against the philistinism which has always dominated German life and which was so much a part of the earlier book.... A tantalizing, eloquent, strange and strangely moving book, filled with remarkable scenes, a tragi-comic vitality and a transcendental vision. ", "A brilliantly realized story... At the deepest level, Mr. Grass resumes here the underlying theme of his famous first novel, 'The Tin Drum'--the survival of individual human qualities in this age of wars and state-directed politics." -- The New York Times Book Review "The strongest most inventic writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945. Much of what is active in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man's ribald keeping." Commentary --, "A brilliantly realized story... At the deepest level, Mr. Grass resumes here the underlying theme of his famous first novel, 'The Tin Drum'--the survival of individual human qualities in this age of wars and state-directed politics." -- The New York Times Book Review "The strongest most inventic writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945. Much of what is active in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man's ribald keeping." Commentary
Copyright Date
1991
Lccn
91-022884
Dewey Decimal
833.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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