Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
The Road from Danzig
By Timothy Garton Ash
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel
by Günter Grass
Göttingen: Steidl, 480 pp., $28.00
Dummer August
by Günter Grass
Göttingen: Steidl, 80 pp.,$25.00
Ein Buch, Ein Bekenntnis: Die Debatte um Günter Grass' "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel"
by Martin Kölbel
Göttingen: Steidl, 368 pp., $12.00
Peeling the Onion
by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim
Harcourt, 425 pp., $26.00
Granted: he was a member of the Waffen-SS. But suppose that revelation had not overshadowed last year's publication of Günter Grass's memoir, like a mushroom cloud. What should we have made of Peeling the Onion? We should, I believe, have said that this is a wonderful book, a return to classic Grass territory and style, after long years of disappointing, wooden, and sometimes insufferably hectoring works from his tireless pen, and a perfect pendant to his great 'Danzig trilogy' of novels, starting with The Tin Drum. That is what we should still say, first and last.
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