Word: weltgeist
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...comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as it is called on the Continent, is also a male chauvinist who echoes one of the two main themes of the book: the eternal power struggle between men and women. The other persistent melody, the importance of cooking and nutrition in history, is in the tasty flesh of the flounder itself...
...food are as far from the dry rumblings of Weltgeist and Historismus as one can get. Grass keeps it that way for more than 500 pages with dozens of lusty characters and bawdy episodes that stretch from the Neolithic to now. He also lards his narrative with mock-epic poetry...
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