Gunter Grass | The Flounder
Copyright: © Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1978
It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise.Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness.
Grass analyses the battle of the sexes with characteristic insight and humour. The nine sections of the book, each representing one month, combine and reinforce a complete reworking of social, political and gastronomic istory that seriously questions the roles of the male and female may play in mankind's future.- Language: English
- Dimensions: 19,7 х 13 cm
- Pages: 548
- Cover: softcover
- Year: 1989