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Tables of Contents for The Gunter Grass Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
When the LZ-126 Drew Close to New York
1
4
(from MY CENTURY)
The Stockturm. Long-Distance Song Effects
5
17
(from THIS TIN DRUM)
In the Tunnel
22
4
Nursery Rhyme
26
2
By the Time the War Broke Out
(from CAT AND MOUSE)
28
10
Execution on the Playground
(from MY CENTURY)
38
3
Roll Your Own
41
4
There Was Once a City
(from DOG YEARS)
45
18
Dixieland!
(from MY CENTURY)
63
3
A Look Back at The Tin Drum, or: The Author as Dubious Witness
66
13
Two Left-handers
79
9
When the Wall Went Up
88
3
Operation Travel Bureau
(from MY CENTURY)
91
4
I Like Riding the Escalator
95
3
On Writers as Court Jesters and on Non-existent Courts
98
8
Literature and Politics
106
5
A Father's Difficulties in Explaining Auschwitz to His Children
111
4
When Father Wanted to Remarry
115
3
Isn't It Nice to Be Rich and Famous?
118
4
(from FROM THE DIARY OF A SNAIL)
A Call to the Special Unit
(from MY CENTURY)
122
4
Police Radio
126
5
Israel and Me
131
7
Immured
138
5
By a Rough Estimate
143
13
Askesis
156
4
But What Is My Stone?
160
2
(from HEADBIRTHS OR THE GERMANS ARE DYING OUT)
The Stone
162
1
The Artist's Freedom of Opinion in Our Society
163
12
The Last Meal
(from THE FLOUNDER)
175
17
Literature and Myth
192
6
The Hare and the Hedgehog
198
3
The Destruction of Mankind Has Begun
201
5
In Posthuman Times
(from THE RAT)
206
7
Bikini Atoll
213
2
Berlin-A Projected Fiction
215
3
Alexander and Alexandra
(from THE CALL OF THE TOAD)
218
8
Madness! Sheer Madness!
(from MY CENTURY)
226
3
The Wallpeckers
(from TOO FAR AFIELD)
229
13
My Old Olivetti
242
1
Willy Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto
243
3
Obituary for Helen Wolff
246
8
Literature and History
254
7
To Be Continued...
261
20
In the Midst of Life
281
1
I remember...
282
6
Kleckerburg
288
8
When Time Had Run Out
(from CRABWALK)
296
6
After Midnight
302
2
Tango Nocturno
304
2
Tango Mortale
306