Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): One character in this novel has a fascination for a large wooden anchor that he nicknames Niobe; that character is Herbert Truczinsk, who has a tattoo of a hieroglyphic on his back that fascinates the protagonist. The protagonist of this work has conflicting accounts of his defense of a polish post office. Roswitha Raguna becomes the lover of the protagonist in the second part of this work, when he works at a circus. Sister Dorothea Kngetter is the focus of the third part of this work, when she is the love interest of the protagonist. The protagonist of this novel is a patient at a mental hospital whose scream can be used as a weapon; his name is Oskar Matzerath, and he refuses to grow. For 10 points, name this novel which precedes Dog Years and Cat and Mouse in the Danzig Trilogy, a work by Gunther Grass.
Output (English): Literature