Volume 34, Number 14 · September 24, 1987
Doomsday Book
By D.J. Enright
The Rat
by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 371 pp., $17.95
Günter Grass's new novel is a hectic meditation, darting and diverging in characteristic fashion, a gathering of old obsessions and newer pains, and a recall or roll call of characters from his earlier works, a roll of honor and of dishonor, an elaborate Last Post or taps for what he has created, and what he has loved, for himself, and for all of us. Yet another apocalypse, another busy Last Days of Mankind.
Review, 2112 words
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