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Loading... Local Anaesthetic (1969)by Günter Grass
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There appeared to be a fucund period where I couldn't stop reading Gunter grass. This time is highlighted in my memory but eternal sunshine and febrile trips to Bloomington. I finished thsi one sitting in the Highlands, amazed at teh disocurse, the counterarguments, the sage handle on it all. What was truly breathtaking that the book was so germane 25 years after its publication. ( ) Kinda long and hard to follow, but about midway through the protagonist gets into a comical debate with a hotheaded student radical about how one should feel about little old German ladies eating coffee cake in cafes and in the course of it comes up with the best counter-argument to puritanical anti-consumerism that I have ever read. no reviews | add a review
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Starusch, a 40 year old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. A satirical portrait of social confusions. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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