The 3rd book in the Danzig trilogy which includes The Tin Drum and. Cat and Mouse. The Tin Drum translated by Breon Mitchell is one of the best novels I’ve ever read. I finally got around to starting it!
Dog Years is one of the most complex novels written in the twentieth century and one of the most powerful as well… Günter Grass is at the top of his creativity.
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts… chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.
Memory is a river – friends and enemies, men and mannequins, people and monsters, rats and dogs, philosophers and villains, good and evil float by through the years…
“The rat can endure without the ratty, but never can there be rattiness without the rat.”
Dog Years is a magical warp of reality – reality is distorted and twisted and it is done not for purpose of deceiving but to make history and evil more grotesque and sinister, to make us see the nightmare of war and fascism in all its hideousness and filth.
“The scarecrow is created in man’s image…” But there are also some men that were created in scarecrow’s image.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214993.Dog_Years
Happy Earth day to you, too and thanks!
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