Local Anaesthetic
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0436187884 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 283 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-07 |
| Language | : | German |
DESCRIPTION:
GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist
Language Notes Text: English, German (translation)
Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. A satirical portrait of social confusions. Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients
Survives the Test of Time Thirty years after first reading this book, I still recall the milk teeth carefully kept in a special box. The imagery and characterization stay with you - they echo down the years.I found my old copy last month when cleaning out some old boxes; I set it aside, and read it this week. The book surpassed my memory of the book.Like life, there are unresolved loose ends and this is a good thing.. Robert Beveridge said For Grass completists. Eberhard Starusch has a number of problems. His teeth hurt. His dentist quotes Seneca constantly. One of his students is trying to come up with a dramatic protest of the Vietnam war. He has invented (or has he?) a number of events surrounding a mythical (or is he?) Field Marshal General who happens to be the uncle of Starusch's ex-fiancee, whom Starusch-- or someone else-- may or may not have murdered with a bicycle chain. Such is the platform from which Local Anesthetic takes its course. Throughout this novel, I was reminded almost constantly of Alain Robbe-Grillet's style in The Erasers and Th