Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
Victims
By J.M. Coetzee
Crabwalk
by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Harcourt, 234 pp., $25.00
Günter Grass burst on the literary scene in 1959 with The Tin Drum, a novel which, with its mix of the fabulous—a hero who in protest against the world around him refuses to grow—and the realistic—a densely textured realization of pre-war Danzig—announced the advent of magic realism.
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