Peeling the Onion
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 as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous.
Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion—which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany—reveals Grass at his most intimate.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 17, 2007 Type: User Review |
An accidental writer
Interesting book to learn how a great fiction writer put it all together. Though balanced with lots of things the Author doesn't remember, or only hints at, the memories are superb in explaining all that can be explained (and that the Author is...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 28, 2007 Type: User Review |
A tale, a tall tale even, but so European
I did not have the courage to read it in German, but I could not have done so that easily and fast. But in English it is worth a real lot and the time it takes to come to the closing page. But now what does this book tell us about Germany, about...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 26, 2007 Type: User Review |
Best Grass yet
I enjoyed this book more than any of his other work. Probably because the prose is less turgid than most, and I enjoy historical accounts more than fiction in any case. He doesn't quite seem to "tell all", but he tells quite a bit and reveals...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 11, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fiction is often truer than memoir
The book was well-written, but the vagueness of what actually happened and lack of emotional depth of this memoir was disturbing. Has the author taken full responsibility for his actions? Why is this story being told only now? I get the...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 07, 2007 Type: User Review |
Ethical problems
At a play in NYC a few years ago when one character describes to another German children burned alive with napalm in the allied bombings, a playgoer behind me said, "good".
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