Title: The flounder /
Authors: Grass, Günter, 1927-2015; Updike, John,
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Year: 1978
Subjects: German fiction Translation into English.; Cooks Fiction; Fishes Fiction.
Abstract: Based loosely on Grimm's The Fisherman and his Wife, this triumphant blend of folk tale and contemporary story takes place over the course of nine months, during which the wife of the narrator becomes pregnant and is regaled with tales of the various cooks the fisherman has met throughout his life. The emerging themes of the novel expose the periods when men made history and women's contributions went largely, in some cases gravely, unrecognized. Inventive, imaginitive and irreverent, this humorous, fundamentally brilliant novel highlights the value of modern-day myth and timeless legend.
Contents: First month: Third breast -- What I write about -- Nine and more cooks -- Awa -- How the flounder was caught -- Division of labor -- How the flounder was caught a second time -- Dreaming ahead -- How the flounder was prosecuted by the Ilsebills -- Meat -- Where the stolen fire was briefly hidden -- What we lack -- Hospitably from horde to horde -- Dr. Affectionate -- Fed -- Wurzel mother -- Demeter -- What a cast-iron spoon is good for -- How I see myself -- Oh, Ilsebill -- At the end -- What I don't want to remember -- Second month : How we became city dwellers -- Quarrel -- Dishwashing -- Elaine Migraine -- Libber, libber -- Like my Dorothea -- Like at the movies -- Scania herring -- To Ilsebill -- My dear Dr. Stachnik -- Surplus value -- Third month: How the flounder was protected against aggresion -- When I was her kitchen boy -- Vasco returns -- Three questions -- Too much -- Esau says -- Last meal -- Tarred and feathered -- Fat Gret's ass -- Delay --^