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

Grass, Günter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156331500 ISBN 13: 9780156331500

Publisher: Harpervia, 1967

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpervia
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0156331500
• ISBN 13: 9780156331500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304