Word: flounders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Birdy. William Wharton Nostalgia for the Present. Andrei Voznesensky • The Coup. John Updike • The Flounder. Günter Grass • The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever • The World According to Garp. John Irving
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙The Coup, John Updike ∙The Flounder, Günter Grass ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Flounder, Günter Grass
...your uncle for the last five years. He's bored with cufflinks and he's probably gotten too paunchy for his French cuff shirts anyway. It's time for something new. Perhaps you could try getting him something to read. You could get him Gunther Grass's novel Flounder which is all about food and the history of male-female relationships since pre-historic times. I imagine that it would help if your uncle happened to be a Freudian psychologist, all that food-sex imagery, but what the hell, he'll probably never read it anyway...
...distinguished novelist Günter Grass a male chauvinist? One of the biggest, says a German women's group, who named him M.C. of the Month for his new book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have not confronted...