Unreliable witnesses (again)

Posted by on Jan 2, 2009 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

The opening line of Nobel Laureate's Gunter Grass first novel [Die Blechtrommel or The Tin Drum] is emblematic of one of the most important stylistic features of the post War novel, not just in German literature, but for that of much of the developed world, the "unreliable narrator": "Admittedly, I'm an inmate of a mental […]