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Article: Gunter Grass' Book Of Revelation
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- The Washington Post
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- July 12, 1987
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THE RAT By Gunter Grass
Translated from the German
By Ralph Manheim
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 371 pp. $17.95
THIS 18th book by Gunter Grass is his first full-dress work of
fiction in the nine years since The Flounder, a busy meditation on
the history of food and women from the German Middle Ages to the
present that transformed the matter of sexual and cultural politics
into a Rabelaisian stew. After nearly a decade of miscellaneous
productions-a short novel, The Meeting at Telgte, that proved to be a
elaborate conceit on German literary history; Headbirths, a
half-fictional diary of a trip to the Far East; and three
collections of drawings, etchings, ...