The Box簡介，目錄書摘
In an audacious literary experiment, Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory--they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of Marie, Grass’s assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his work. But her images offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, grant the wishes in visual form of those photographed. The children speculate on the nature of this magic: was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God?
Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.
Born on October 16, 1927 in Gdansk, Poland, Günter Grass was a member of the Hitler Youth in the 1930s. At the age of 16, he was drafted into the German military, was wounded, and became a prisoner of war in 1945. His first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), selected by the French as the best foreign language book of 1962, is the story of Oscar Matzerath, a boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the cruelty of German society during the war. It is the first part of his Danzig trilogy, followed by Cat and Mouse (1961) and Dog Years (1963), and was made into a movie by director Volker Schlondorff, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. His other works include Local Anaesthetic, The Flounder, Crabwalk, and Peeling the Onion. He has been honored many times, including a distinguished service medal from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980 which he refused to accept. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
君特·格拉斯（Günter Grass，1927～）德意志聯(lián)邦共和國作家。格拉斯的創(chuàng)作活動從詩歌開始，自1956年起發(fā)表3部詩集《風信雞之優(yōu)點》、《三角軌道》等，同時創(chuàng)作了荒誕劇《洪水》（1957）、《叔叔、叔叔》（1958）、《惡廚師》（1961）等。其中反響較大的是關于1953年柏林事件的《平民試驗起義》（1966）。他最主要的成就是小說。1959年問世的長篇小說《鐵皮鼓》使他獲得世界聲譽。此外還有《貓與鼠》（1961）、《非常歲月》（1963，亦譯《狗年月》），合稱為《但澤三部曲》，成為一幅描繪德國社會生活的畫卷?！缎沸小肥歉窭?999年獲得諾貝爾文學獎之后推出的新作，一面世就好評如潮，連續(xù)數(shù)月占據(jù)各大暢銷書排行榜榜首，兩周內售出25萬冊。1999年他成為成為20世紀最后一位諾貝爾文學獎獲得者。
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