![]() ![]() Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. It also includes a selection of other works to give a well-rounded view of a writer whom John Irving characterizes in his foreword as "the greatest living novelist today". Both speak to our time, but under very different settings. This representative volume features two important works: Cat and Mouse and The Meeting at Telgte. From the publication of The Tin Drum through his latest pleas for sane government and civil treatment of Germany's "foreign citizens" in the 1990s, Grass has been at the forefront of both literary and political worlds. For many years, Gunter Grass (born 1927) has been one of the world's most vital literary figures. ![]()
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