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A most unusual question from the old Dick Cavett Show
Self | 10/2/'08 | Zionist Conspirator

Posted on 10/02/2008 2:17:59 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

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To: Zionist Conspirator
Guenther Grass' prose style, such as it is, is not meant to be naturalistic but fantastical.

He is trying for a grotesque surrealism, like Lautreamont in Maldoror.

The protagonist of The Tin Drum is a child who refuses to grow up and is forever six years old, and he wanders around war-torn East Prussia as a circus performer seducing adult women.

Everything he writes is supposed to be too clever to make sense.

41 posted on 10/02/2008 5:18:03 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Guenther Grass' prose style, such as it is, is not meant to be naturalistic but fantastical.

He is trying for a grotesque surrealism, like Lautreamont in Maldoror.

The protagonist of The Tin Drum is a child who refuses to grow up and is forever six years old, and he wanders around war-torn East Prussia as a circus performer seducing adult women.

Everything he writes is supposed to be too clever to make sense.

So . . . what I'm getting from this is that any eels profiled in his works are surrealistic and fantastic and not to be confused with real eels. That is comforting.

BTW, any theories as to which commie will win the Nobel Prize for Literature this year?

42 posted on 10/02/2008 5:26:01 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Leshanah tovah umetuqqah nikkatev venechatem beSefer HaChayyim!)
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I think he inferred or said that the horses were on a transport ship that was sunk not too far from shore. WW II had no such incidents.


43 posted on 10/02/2008 9:56:06 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Not an answer to your question but I’d hardly call Tennesee Williams a cult figure.


44 posted on 10/03/2008 7:47:52 AM PDT by Borges
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