Books Titled "Dog Years".
19-NOV-1997
jim.cerny@unh.edu
The best known book titled "Dog Years" is Gunter Grass's novel, reviewed by Anthony Gottlieb in an essay titled "Heidegger for Fun and Profit":
Gunter Grass parodies Heideggerese in the character of a German Air Force auxilliary named Stortebeker, who "created a philosophical schoolboy language that was soon prattled by many, with varying success." Every commonplace incident or object can be rechristened in Stortebeker/Heideger's hilarious language. Underdone potatoes in the mess kitchen, for example, are "spuds forgetful of Being."Amazon Books summarizes the book in one sentence:
In this vast novel, packed with incident, Gunter Grass traces the dark labyrinth of the German mentality as it developed during the rise, fall, and aftermath of the Third Reich.Visit Amazon Books, too, to discover other books with the title "Dog Years" by Sally Warner (novel about the difficulties of a sixth-grader named Casey Hill, living in Philadelphia) and by Dennis Denisoff (subject not indicated).