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Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks

Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks - Paperback

by Gunter Grass
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gunter Grass, Martin Esslin (Translator), Martin Esslin (Introduction by)Publish date:1967-12-19Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156331500ISBN-10:156331500UPC:9780156331500Book Category:Drama, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:German, ScandinavianSize:8.52 x 5.52 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC05GFKTFG
Gunter Grass began his writing career as a poet and dramatist. His early plays, four of which are collected in this volume, show the brilliant inventiveness and the verbal pyrotechnics that made his later novels electrifying. As with the novels, the plays' surface farce and absurdity enwrap complex motives. Flood stands for mankind's survival of yet another catastrophe. In Mister, Mister, Grass plays the sinisterly innocent games of childhood. Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo spoofs the grandiloquence of stationary drivers who delude themselves that they are advancing at top speed. And in The Wicked Cooks no less is at stake than the secret of life.

Grass's key images and motives ring their changes in these plays, which are but another facet of his many-sided creativity.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156331500ISBN-10:156331500UPC:9780156331500Book Category:Drama, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:German, ScandinavianSize:8.52 x 5.52 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC05GFKTFG
Grass, Günter: - GÜNTER GRASS (1927-2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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Gunter Grass, Martin Esslin (Translator), Martin Esslin (Introduction by)

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Gunter Grass

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