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Grass, Gunter; Manheim, Ralph (Translator) : Local Anaesthetic: A Novel

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, 1970

First American Edition. Signed in blue pen by the author on title page. Original publisher's yellow cloth binding in a white paper dust jacket. Black lettering on front panel and spine of dust jacket. Color illustration on front panel. Dust jacket protected by a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 6" x 8 3/4." 284 pages, complete. Pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact but has slight wear to extremities and a small closed tear at top edge of front panel. Dust jacket not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, sculptor, and graphic artist. Grass's writing style has been termed experimental and is sometimes associated with Magic Realism. Many of Grass's works are about reconciliation between post-war Germany and its Nazi past. Grass was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Local Anaesthetic, originally published as Ortlich Betaubt in German, is a social satire about the role of intellectuals in post-war Germany and how Nazism and the war affected the country. The main protagonist, Eberhard Starusch, is a 40-year-old teacher of German and history who undergoes a series of dental procedures that are "anesthetized" with the use of television as a distraction. The result is that the images on the TV merge with the thoughts of Starusch during the surgeries. Much of the novel is composed of Starusch's inner thoughts as figures and events of Nazi-controlled Germany reemerge and meld with his consciousness.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine

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