Volume 7, Number 11 · December 29, 1966
Kindly Shoot Above the Trees
By D.J. Enright
The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising
by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 158 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Selected Poems
by Günter Grass, with translations from the German by Michael Hamburger, by Christopher Middleton
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 63 pp., $3.95
Two Views
by Uwe Johnson, translated by Richard Winston, translated by Clara Winston
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 183 pp., $4.50
Attendance List for a Funeral
by Alexander Kluge, translated by Leila Vennewitz
McGraw-Hill, 203 pp., $4.95
18 Stories
by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
McGraw-Hill, 243 pp., $5.50
Having used up their obvious, rich, horrifying subject matter, post-war German writers, to judge from this present batch of books, are turning to the coolly enigmatic—exactly as so many other writers did quite a while back. I have in mind that kind of writing which resembles grangerism: given an atmosphere of indeterminate 'significance,' the reader cooperates by pasting his own meanings into the vacant spaces provided.
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