Three Volumes. 1985. GRASS, Gunter. The Flounder. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Three volumes. Illustrated with 27 plates after drawings by Grass. Square 4to., bound in quarter white eel-skin over cloth boards, title printed on letter-press label on cover, in slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. One of 1000 copies, printed by the Wild Carrot Press on blue- gray Mohawk paper. Designed by Ben Shiff and signed on the colophon by Grass. The Flounder (Der Butt), first published in 1977, plays off the Grimms' fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife. Grass spins out a fantastical history of the struggles between the sexes, and simultaneously a history of cooks, from prehistoric to modern times. His marvelous tale is infused with wit, wisdom and interesting recipes. A beautiful production, containing Grass's own illustrations and bound in quarter white eel-skin (!). This number 962.
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Born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927, Günter Grass is a widely acclaimed author of plays, essays, poems, and numerous novels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
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I can't believe it's out of print...,
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This review is from: The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book) (Paperback)
I read this book when it first came out (1980?), and have read, in English or German, 4 other novels by GG. All were wonderful, but this was my favorite. It's "magic realism" that's both thought-provoking and very entertaining, and so well-written and translated. It's really too bad that it's out of print.
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a wonderful work,
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Truly an epic journey. The story combines many themes and just as many characters. One must read about half to get a grasp on the reins and after that, it's fun. Cooking and copulation play large roles. All the talk about soup and the endless mushrooms are fantastic. Throughout the text are poems and songs. At first, they don't seem to relate. But one comes to expect them after a time. This is a big change from the style of the Danzig trilogy, much more modern. Grass makes some interesting points about guilt and shame (defecation circles, sleeping with the abbess.) The last few scenes are tremendous. Supposedly, this was Grass' present to himself. The terrific ending must reveal an optimist side to him.
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An outstanding statment by Grass on history, feminism, cooking and Joycean bodily details which encapsulates the obssession by the Germans of systems, machoness and abstractions that have led to disaster. But the book is a balanced look at the effects of excess feminism as well.
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honey tufts, manna grits, cooking nun, midsummer floods, shipyard canteen, talking flounder, palmed antlers, esteemed prosecutor, anchor maker, neighboring horde, potato schnapps, sulfur tuft, imperial mushroom, orange agaric, bucket makers, codfish heads, former movie house, canteen cook, four dignitaries, town painter, pounding acorns, farm cook, elk cow, male cause, third breast Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lena Stubbe, Amanda Woyke, Margarete Rusch, Father's Day, Mother Rusch, Sieglinde Huntscha, Agnes Kurbiella, Sophie Rotzoll, Teutonic Knights, Dorothea of Montau, Wicker Bastion, High Gothic, Charter City, Ole Fritz, Saint Mary, Ruth Simoneit, Count Rumford, Stone Age, Helga Paasch, Saint Bridget, Griselde Dubertin, Pastor Blech, Advisory Council, Baltic Sea, Ulla Witzlaff New!
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- Cc The Fisherman And His Wife by Brothers Grimm on 4 pages
- Marco Polo (Explorers (Abdo Publishing Company)) by Kristin Petrie in Front Matter, page 20, and page 348
- The Fisherman and His Wife by Jacob Grimm in Front Matter, page 20, and page 348
- The Fisherman And His Wife (Rabbit Ears: a Classic Tale) by Wilhelm Grimm in Front Matter, page 20, and page 348
- Yom Kippur by Norma Simon on page 93
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