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Book: Still banging the tin drum German giant John Reddick celebrates the work of new Nobel laureate Gunter Grass
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So they've given him the prize at last! Almost 40 years to the day
since The Tin Drum rudely shattered the dour reconstructionist calm
that followed the Nazi storm in (West) Germany, Gunter Grass has
finally landed the Nobel Prize for Literature. Like all literary
prizes, the Nobel has sometimes seemed to go to pygmies, but in Grass
they have chosen a giant. And let's be clear that this stature rests
squarely and solidly on the great trio of books now generally, if
misleadingly, known as the ...
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Guenter Grass garners Nobel
The Boston Globe
; At age 71, Guenter Grass, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, is considered by critics around the world to be the grand old man of German letters. Ironically, the honor he received yesterday rests largely on the epic achievement of his first novel, "The Tin Drum," which was
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A bang-up job: Documentary about `Drum' ban a worthy mate to masterpiece.
Dallas Morning News
; ... nudity, violence, grotesque imagery, language). Length: 142 min. $39.95. ___ (c) 2004, The Dallas Morning News. Visit The Dallas Morning News on the World Wide Web at http://www.dallasnews.com/ Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services ...
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A bang-up job: Documentary about `Drum' ban a worthy mate to masterpiece.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... grotesque imagery, language). Length: 142 min. $39.95. ___ Visit The Dallas Morning News on the World Wide Web at http://www.dallasnews.com/ Distributed by Knight Ridder ... 213) 237-6515, or e-mail reprints@krtinfo.com. (c) 2004, The Dallas Morning News.
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Germany's Grass wins Nobel
Chicago Sun-Times
; STOCKHOLM, Sweden Guenter Grass, whose explorations of Germany's troubled century made him one of the best-known German writers of the post-World War II generation, won the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature today. The Swedish Academy cited Grass' first novel, The Tin Drum, published in 1959, for
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Free speech means tough trade-offs
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