Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993 - Hardcover

Grass, Gunter; Hamburger, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151001774 ISBN 13: 9780151001774

Publisher: Harvest Books, 1996

Synopsis

A bilingual volume of the author's selected poems from the last four decades follows such topics as a lamentation over the ruins of Berlin, two bitten apples who recall Paradise, and a prophetic glove at the beach.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Novemberland is a bilingual volume of selected poems from the past four decades by Germany's preeminent contemporary writer. Before Guenter Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, received international acclaim as one of the most important postwar novels ever written, Grass was renowned in his native country for his poetry. Informed by the same baroque inventiveness and mordant wit that characterize such celebrated prose works as The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, and The Flounder, these poems depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal.

About the Author:

GUNTER 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0151001774
• ISBN 13: 9780151001774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 163