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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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Flounder, Günter Grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Germany's 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...nter Grass; translated by Ralph Manheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Germany's finest living novelist, Günter Grass has clowned his way to his nation's most serious truths. The Tin Drum and Dog Years are masterpieces of comedy and verbal invention about the culture and history that suppurated as the Third Reich. In other novels, plays and poems, he dealt with the Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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