Ebook {Epub PDF} The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass

The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War www.doorway.ru: $ The Call of the Toad. Title: The Call of the Toad. Author: GRASS, Günter. Advance Reading Copy. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Publication: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ().Seller Rating: % positive. The call of the toad. by. Grass, Günter, Publication date. Topics. Cemeteries, Germans. Publisher. New York: Harcourt Brace www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:

Günter Grass's first novel after the Berlin Wall fell, The Call of the Toad (), took its title from Baltic lore - it invoked a cry of warning, a prophecy of doom for Germany's dawning age. He was honoured with a commission to record a score with the Polish Symphony Orchestra for THE CALL OF THE TOAD written by Günter Grass, and directed by celebrated arthouse director Robert Glinskî. The movie was produced by Regina Ziegler as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and birth of the Solidarity. The narrator, by the way, was a boyhood chum of Reschke's in Danzig, and it is an easy and probably justified assumption that the narrator is none other than Günter Grass, who also grew up in Danzig and left in Each chapter begins with a striking line drawing of a toad -- the work of Grass. The translation by Ralph Mannheim is superb.

The call of the toad. by. Grass, Günter, Publication date. Topics. Cemeteries, Germans. Publisher. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. GÜNTER GRASS (–), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in THE CALL OF THE TOAD is a deliciously clever allegory, and also a devilishly satiric and comedic one. The first two chapters are brilliant. The middle part lags somewhat, but over the last quarter of the novel the story accelerates and the complexity of the allegorical construction multiplies.