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The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 15 years ago
Arf...whoof...I did it!But it wasn't that easy.Now I feel like the dog printed in the front cover of this book and drawn by Grass himself. A dog with its tongue out after a long run all through unknown narrative woods.Just like "Prinz" did, escaping from his famous black moustached owner in the sieg...
globulon
globulon rated it 16 years ago
Grass did a good job of presenting himself as human. He confronts his own blindness, selfishness, and vanities, as well as delivering a very readable account of his development as an artist. He treats the events of his life as learning experiences which seems to me to be a perfectly defensible app...
sumire
sumire rated it 17 years ago
I'm still not sure I understood this book.
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 18 years ago
This is probably a minor novel by Grass, but still it's often breathtaking.I particularly liked the work of historic research that made the basement of the novel. Unless the tragedies of Titanic and Lusitania, quite a few people knew about the shipwreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff.The scene of the sunke...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 18 years ago
On summer 2002 I've had my first holiday paid with my own money made working in an estate agency. Destination Berlin. Yeah! Ja!Stefania a friend of a friend of mine had given me the keys of her house in Fredrichshain, the quarter where former medium hyerarchies of the communist DDR used to live. A q...
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