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...with a small new novel, Local Anaesthetic, West Germany's Giinter Wilhelm Grass has reached into the pressing present. The book's setting is Germany today. Its grim narrative device, characteristic of Grass's grotesque humor, offers society as a patient in a dentist's chair. The plot, if it can be called that, involves the threatened sacrificial burning of a dachshund. But Grass's real concern, which currently throbs like a sick tooth through the mind and conscience of the Western world, is the Generation Gap, the morality of revolutionary protest, the apparently helpless and surely tragic bankruptcy...
...early postwar years, Boll wrestled with the question of Germany's guilt and corruption. Bitter irony marked his work, but also extraordinary grace and compassion. His subsequent novels, particularly Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959) and The Clown (1963), enhanced his reputation-along with the much younger Giinter Grass-as Germany's most profoundly committed writer...
Accustomed as she is to having her picture taken, these photos nevertheless "had no aim except that of arousing the morbid curiosity of the public," complained Brigitte Bardot, 32, in a suit co-filed with Husband Giinter Sachs, 34, against Playmen, a grotesque new Italian caricature of Playboy. The magazine garnished its second issue with a five-picture layout of a topless BB, looking mighty like a senior citizen, sunbathing in Rome with her totally in-the-skin husband, unaware that a paparazzo had, in Brigitte's words, "cut a hole in the dense vegetation surrounding the swimming pool...
...Giinter Grass looks like a slightly sinister Santa Claus and comes loaded with gifts. Renowned as Germany's most powerful postwar novelist (The Tin Drum, Dog Years), this husky son of a Danzig grocer is also a playwright (The Wicked Cooks), a sometime speechwriter (for West Berlin's Mayor Willy...
...YEARS, by Giinter Grass. The author's subject is again Nazi Germany, and he approaches it with obsessive fury. He uses savage humor and a seemingly limitless range of imagery to tell the story of two friends-one Jew, one Gentile-through the Nazi years, the war, and the sudden prosperity that followed...