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...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for achievement and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
...another European writer who grew up under Adolf Hitler, German Novelist Gunter Grass, 36, is a man shadowed by the cruelty and grotesquerie of life. The groans and squeaks, the howls and primitive chuckles of his first hero, a prurient dwarf named Oskar Mazerath, made Grass's The Tin Drum the most powerful first novel to come out of Germany in a generation...
...Tin Drum, religious symbolism pervades the book. Again and again, the narrator-the boy who originally threw the cat on Mahlke's mouse, and who suffers from a feeling that he has betrayed Mahlke-refers to Mahlke's "sorrowful, sallow Redeemer's countenance." And the brooding sense of loss and desolation that runs through the book suggests that Grass may be trying to shape a Christ figure suitable for a deformed and shadowed...
Point of Definition. Catavi, the country's largest single tin-mine complex, seemed a good place to start. It accounted for 30% of Comibol's operating losses, and half of its 7,000 employees were superfluous. "Be firm, don't weaken," Paz Estenssoro said to Comibol's President Guillermo Bedregal...
Bedregal has no intention of weakening. He is bent upon renovation of the tin mines as an essential step to ward restoring national solvency and self-respect. "We are facing a point of definition in this country," he says. "This is absolutely the most important development since the revolution...