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A review by spaceisavacuum
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
challenging
dark
funny
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Ah yes, to return for the moment to the Danzig trilogy. The Tin Drum, while being highly acclaimed, well, you could say that Bildungsroman doesn’t really appeal to me very much. But I rather enjoy his shorter books, as in “Local Anaesthetic” about a dentist who was persuading a young man not to kill a dog to make a political statement or some such.
Cat and Mouse, meanwhile, also features an eclectic sort of bailiwick, we encounter some Air Force Divers, oddly enough, Air Force patriots with their screwdrivers and their crucifixes and salvage plates, things buried beneath the ocean. Mahlke, seems to be the central figure in the book, a comrade, and not the narrator themself. Mahlke is a man with a rather obtuse Adam’s apple, or occiput, and accordingly the length of his dong detracts from his abstruse facial deficiency. For that matter, his rather odd and peculiar physique or general mien could account for his pretty large dingus. Eh, strange book with a lot of innuendo. But it’s German!
In fact, it reminded me very much of what I’ve read of Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke. It’s basically a schoolboy yarn, except they are military comrades.
So, final summation… we have a detailed illustration of the fate of such naval fleets as The Blyskawica (Lightning), or the Wilk or Orzel (Eagle). Mahlke is a very pious man, whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idyllic, (I’m not talking about Bucolic- scratch that)- Idolic, he worships the Virgin Mary as he would his cock.
Cat and Mouse, meanwhile, also features an eclectic sort of bailiwick, we encounter some Air Force Divers, oddly enough, Air Force patriots with their screwdrivers and their crucifixes and salvage plates, things buried beneath the ocean. Mahlke, seems to be the central figure in the book, a comrade, and not the narrator themself. Mahlke is a man with a rather obtuse Adam’s apple, or occiput, and accordingly the length of his dong detracts from his abstruse facial deficiency. For that matter, his rather odd and peculiar physique or general mien could account for his pretty large dingus. Eh, strange book with a lot of innuendo. But it’s German!
In fact, it reminded me very much of what I’ve read of Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke. It’s basically a schoolboy yarn, except they are military comrades.
So, final summation… we have a detailed illustration of the fate of such naval fleets as The Blyskawica (Lightning), or the Wilk or Orzel (Eagle). Mahlke is a very pious man, whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idyllic, (I’m not talking about Bucolic- scratch that)- Idolic, he worships the Virgin Mary as he would his cock.