- Paperback: 547 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Ltd; 1st Harvest/HBJ Ed edition (May 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0156319357
- ISBN-13: 978-0156319355
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.1 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,300,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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KEY POINTS: * One of Gunters Grass's most famous and popular works. * Very striking jacket as part of Minerva's generic look for Grass's backlist. * Minerva's attractive repackaging of Grass will attract new readers to one of this century's most famous writers. * A core stock backlist item. * New book by Grass to be published in October 1997.
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THE BOOK: Heralded by many as Grass's finest work, The Flounder was first published in 1977. Through the Flounder, taken from the fairy story The Fisherman and his Wife, Grass analyses the battle of the sexes with characteristic insight and humour. The Flounder is a rich and multi-layered novel, redolent with good food, laced with poetry and spiced with wit and humour. Enormously enjoyable - it is a major work by one of this century's greatest writers. (19970423)
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Talking fish,the Baltic in the Stone Age,and a revolutionary feminist tribunal-just another Grass novel.
18 July 2007
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It's a sprawling story,loosely divided into 9 parts,each one marking a month of the narrator's wife's pregnancy,and also the lives of nine women who lived in the Danzig/Gdansk area,starting from the end of the Ice Ages.
Into this,Grass also adds a talking fish,The Flounder,who has observed life on the Baltic coast for this time,and has advised and criticised both men and women over this age.The flounder is of ccourse the fish from the fairy story"The Fisherman's Wife".
The novel evolves into a very funny and well-written account of the relationship between men and women over the ages,from Stone Age matriarchy to a feminist tribunal judging the Flounder in 1970s West Berlin.Add in some poetry,a side-trip to India and making a TV documentary about restoring Baltic architecture(amongst other things)and you have one of Grass's best novels.Highly recommended.
Into this,Grass also adds a talking fish,The Flounder,who has observed life on the Baltic coast for this time,and has advised and criticised both men and women over this age.The flounder is of ccourse the fish from the fairy story"The Fisherman's Wife".
The novel evolves into a very funny and well-written account of the relationship between men and women over the ages,from Stone Age matriarchy to a feminist tribunal judging the Flounder in 1970s West Berlin.Add in some poetry,a side-trip to India and making a TV documentary about restoring Baltic architecture(amongst other things)and you have one of Grass's best novels.Highly recommended.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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There is no doubt that this book is well written. Grass clearly demonstrated his literary abilities in The Tin Drum, but this book is so hard to plough through, I couldn't even finish it. I also found it annoyingly misogynistic. The most annoying thing about it is that there are lots of interesting ideas, and gripping parts, but the constant change from theme to theme and character to character with no logical thread makes this very hard to read.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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As Milton Schtoigl the great beat poet once said ' A foreign aspect; a new way of viewing home', this is the joy of The Flounder. Originally written in German, this delightfully witty and incredibly inventive book vaults over the translation barrier with gay abandon. Experience a foreign aspect on food, fairy tales and friendship. Experience The Flounder.
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