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3.55 of 5 Votes: 5
But while The Tin Drum achieves its extraordinary cumulative effect through the sprawling and picaresque, Cat and Mouse depends on brevity and compactness. The provocative story centers on the narrator's vivid recollection of a boyhood scene in which a black cat is provoked to pounce on his friend Mahlke's "mouse" -- his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of utterly Grassian events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Because of Grass's singular storytelling virtuosity, Cat and Mouse is marvelously entertaining, powerful, and full of funny episodes -- yet it also has a serious undercurrent "at the deepest level, [about] the survival of individual human qualities in this age of wars and state-directed politics" (The New York Times Book Review). Günter Grass -- novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and graphic artist -- is considered Germany's greatest contemporary writer. He lives in Berlin. Copyright 1961 by Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH,Neuwied am Rhein, Berlin-Spandau English translation copyright © 1963 by Harcourt, Inc., andMartin Seeker & Warburg Limited Copyright renewed 1991 by Ralph Manheim All rights reserved.
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