Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993 - Softcover

Grass, Gunter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156003317 ISBN 13: 9780156003315

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2009

Synopsis

These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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About the Author

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156003317
• ISBN 13: 9780156003315
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174