La Trilogie de Dantzig Séries
Cette saga épique, située dans la tumultueuse Dantzig, retrace les destins entrelacés de plusieurs générations au milieu des bouleversements cruciaux du XXe siècle. Par l'intermédiaire d'un narrateur unique, les lecteurs vivent des événements dramatiques, de la montée du fascisme à sa chute, reflétant l'interaction complexe des identités polonaises, allemandes et cachoubes. La série mêle avec maestria des éléments grotesques et naturalistes à un style inoubliable, explorant la condition humaine face à un vaste changement historique.
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The Tin Drum - A New Translation by Breon Mitchell
- 592pages
- 21 heures de lecture
Beginning with the unforgettable words 'Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institution',The Tin Drum, the narrative of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. On his third birthday Oskar resolves to stunt his own growth at three feet, and on the same day he receives his first tin drum. Wielding his drum and piercing scream as anarchic weapons, he draws forth memories from the past as well as judgements about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. Oskar participates in the German post-war economic miracle - working variously in the black market, as an artist's model, in a troupe of travelling musicians - yet he remains haunted by the deaths of his parents, afflicted by his responsibility for past sins. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of publication, Harvill Secker, along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. The acclaimed translator and scholar, Breon Mitchell, has drawn from many sources: from a wealth of detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly available reference works; and from discussion with the author himself. After fifty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance.
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The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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In this vast novel, packed with incident, Gunter Grass traces the dark labyrinth of the German mentality as it developed during the rise, fall, and aftermath of the Third Reich.
Sonderausgabe. 779, 179, 744 S. Im Schmuckschuber.
