Grass, Günter
Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007