Katz und Maus

As the novella Cat and Mouse appeared in 1961, the critics were surprised. Grass, as its trademark which hardly exuberant was wealth, show himself to be a master of the small form, was the tenor of contemporary reception. Some, however, would the book have preferred indexed: A pornographic and blasphemous concoction either, 'endanger children or young persons morally appropriate '. The book about a youth between petty bourgeois normality, National Socialist ideology and Kriegsfuror was an overwhelming international success and has long Schullektüre. The poignant figure of the 'Great Mahlke' heard how Robert Musil Törless to permanent boy figures of German literature. Fifty years after its release, the story of Joachim Mahlke, to be oversized Adam's apple makes an outsider, lost none of its fascination.

Author(s): Günter Grass  

ISBN 10: 3869302372
ISBN 13: 9783869302379
Pages: 159