[Zionist Conspirator]

“This is particularly true in the case of the infamously “disgusting” passages such as the depiction of the grinningly putrid horse’s head full of pullulating eels, followed by the very smell and sliminess of Agnes Matzerath’s vomit: a literally nauseating episode, yet also the introit to a haunting fable in which Agnes sees a fathomless abyss open up before her, and duly plunges into it.”

What are eels doing in a putrid horse's head? And what is pollulating?

Are these common European eels, hatched in the Sargasso Sea, or some other kind of eel? Moray eels, perhaps? Conger eels?

[dfwgator]

What are eels doing in a putrid horse's head?

My hovercraft is full of eels.

[Judith Anne]

Slime eels, if I am not mistaken.

They eat their way into corpses via natural openings. And then eat their way out, if I remember Polar Star passage correctly. While they do that, they ooze slime. They can fill buckets with slime.

[downtownconservative]

“Anguilla australis.” The short finned eel, common in the Elbe River, in Germany. Are we doing your homework for you???

[wideawake]

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.