Word: knochenberg
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...part, a translator's job is to act as a sensitive and knowledgeable link between alien cultures. The incredible range and idiosyncrasy of Grass's language make extraordinary demands on any translator. Heaps of new coinages are typical in Grass's books, as with "Knochenberg" (bone mountain), which Grass used to describe the enormous pile of human bones lying outside the processing plant in Dog Years. Leaps of Grass's imagination incongruously link references to obscure moments in Polish and German history, folklore, pop songs and blasphemous echoes from the Catholic Mass (relics of Grass...
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