Günter 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. During the months of Ilsebill's pregna
The Flounder
✍ Scribed by Grass, Günter Wilhelm
- Book ID
- 109917740
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 446 KB
- Series
- Helen & Kurt Wolff
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781448180097
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✦ Synopsis
Günter 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. During the months of Ilsebill's pregnancy, the fisherman tells her of his adventures through time with the Flounder, constituting a complete reworking of social, political and gastronomic history.
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Translation of Der Butt
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
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