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Originally Posted by myshkin
Interestingly, or perhaps not, I've twice given up on The Rat by Gunter Grass because I really couldn't get very interested or care about what was going on. Probably killed off much chance of me giving the more famous Tin Drum a look.
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i would say that is interesting. I forced myself through the tin drum, kind of having the same response Grady describes regarding Perfume. But then I found myself recalling the Tin Drum's style reading the perfume, but thinking Perfume is such a more taut, brilliant, effective work. But that could be where opinion comes in. which is why I asked Grady.
Both writers are undeniably german in style. Both viscerally brutal. They both use deformity in the face of society as a literary device, both writers require a peppering of misanthropy in the reader's personality for the experience to be enjoyed
But again the difference is suskind works. gras didn't for me.