Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks

by Günter Grass and Gunter Grass

Book Overview

Gunter Grass began his writing career as a poet and dramatist. His early plays, four of which are collected in this volume, show the brilliant inventiveness and the verbal pyrotechnics that made his later novels electrifying. As with the novels, the plays' surface farce and absurdity enwrap complex motives. Flood stands for mankind's survival of yet another catastrophe. In Mister, Mister, Grass plays the sinisterly innocent games of childhood. Only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156331500
• ISBN13: 9780156331500
• Release Date: March 1968
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"