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8268. judithathome - 7/20/2006 2:01:48 AM Wait for the Robert Hughes' book! ({;?})
I love Hughes but I don't think even HE could write a more evocative review of your work, Wiz...beautifully done...and you must be so proud!
8269. arkymalarky - 7/20/2006 2:46:04 AM I'm really looking forward to it! That's a bummer about Frank, but I will hold out hope for Seadate. And I'm hoping Frank will surprise me again one of these days!
8270. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/20/2006 4:26:59 AM Thanks Judith, I'm grateful but even more pleased that there's a reviewer out there who actually gets it–it's hope for all artists in this trendoid-driven art scene. 8271. anomie - 7/29/2006 12:29:06 AM So, Ms. No, I was all cool with Tori Amos. She's good looking, talented and compelling to look at even if her videos are sometimes cheesy. I bought the two disk set of videos...no problem, until the one where she played with RATS. Yes Rats! Not pretty cuddly lab rats but regular RATS! And snakes. Snakes I can handle.
I'm reevaluating my committment. Ha! 8272. wonkers2 - 8/5/2006 10:28:22 PM The Gypsy Strings at the Rivera Court 8273. wonkers2 - 8/14/2006 5:26:00 PM Here's a shockerGunter Grass admits he was a member of Hitler's Waffen-SS.
Grass is Germany's best writer, author of the widely acclaimed "Tin Drum," which is perhaps the most biting satire of the atrocities of Nazi Germany. 8274. judithathome - 8/14/2006 7:05:31 PM I don't know that he is their best writer but he is certainly very good. 8275. PelleNilsson - 8/14/2006 7:57:40 PM Have you read Grass, wonkers? Personally, I think 'The Flounder' is better than 'The Tin Drum*. 8276. wonkers2 - 8/14/2006 8:01:12 PM Well, he's my favorite living German writer. Very imaginative guy. If you haven't seen Tin Drum, put it on your list. Or better, read the book. It's incredible that the man who wrote that book was in the SS. He was only 18 at the time and I guess he was drafted. 8277. judithathome - 8/14/2006 11:50:52 PM I've seen the movie AND read the book. I think the best German writer is Thomas Mann but if you narrow it down to living author, I won't quibble. 8278. wonkers2 - 8/15/2006 5:27:14 AM No doubt Thomas Mann is widely considered to by Germany's best. I like Grass better although I've read several of both. 8279. Magoseph - 8/15/2006 1:15:30 PM As soon as I finish "Rabbit at Rest", I'm reading Buddenbrooks. 8280. PelleNilsson - 8/15/2006 6:35:23 PM I read it in German during a beach vacation in Portugal long ago. It was a paperback printed on cheap paper. Maybe you know what salty spray does to such stuff. At the end it was hardly recognizable as a book.
I would like to reread it, but my German is no longer good enough, and to read it in translation wouldn't be the same.
Will you read it in English or in French? 8281. Magoseph - 8/15/2006 7:41:26 PM In English, Pelle, and the translator is John E. Woods. I have a yellowed copy printed in 1924 and translated by H.T Lowe-Porter and I read that one long ago. My oldest son gave the new one to me as a gift before I moved up here. The copy was packed and I just unearthed it lately. It is known as being much better than the one by Lowe-Porter, but you must know that. 8282. PelleNilsson - 8/16/2006 7:23:34 PM I wouldn't know anything about that, Mago. If I were to reread Buddenbrooks I would of course do so in Swedish, so I don't see a need to bother about the quality of this or that English translation. 8283. Magoseph - 8/16/2006 7:58:15 PM So, Pelle, you're assuming that your Swedish translation is the best one so far--there could be a newer better one, were you to reread it. 8284. wonkers2 - 8/17/2006 1:36:27 AM Gunter Grass under siege. Writing "The Tin Drum" more than suffices for having joined the Waffen-SS as a teenager. It's a German masterpiece on WWII on the same level or higher than Catch 22, in my opinion. 8285. wonkers2 - 8/17/2006 1:42:58 AM Of course, when considering great WWII era novels one should remember "The Naked and the Dead" by Normal Mailer and Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." Also, "From Here to Eternity" by James Jones. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on the Spanish Civil war is also one of the best modern war novels. That's all that come immediately to mind. 8286. PelleNilsson - 8/17/2006 9:43:43 AM No Mago, I'm saying that if I cannot read a book written in a particular foreign language I prefer to read it in Swedish rather than in a second foreign language. 8287. alistairconnor - 8/17/2006 10:16:53 AM A major reason why I want to improve my schoolboy German (one day) is to read Grass in his own words.
Lech Walesa, the former Polish president, and Jacek Kurski, a deputy for the ruling Law and Justice Party, have called on Mr. Grass to relinquish his honorary citizenship of Gdansk, the city of his upbringing.
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Adam Michnik, the editor of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza, also spoke up for Mr. Grass, adding that “literature has never been Lech Walesa’s strong card.”
One of many weak suits, then.
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