Volume 4, Number 9 · June 3, 1965
Casting Out Demons
By D.J. Enright
Dog Years
by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
Harcourt, Brace & World, 570 pp., $6.95
Imprisoned in Günter Grass's new and corpulent book a thinner but very considerable novel is struggling to get out. The question, which I find difficult to answer with much confidence, is: does it manage to emerge? There is no end of excess fat for it to cut a way through: at the same time it is a muscular piece of flesh and blood, endowed with sharp teeth, at least thirty-two of them.
Review, 2400 words
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