Of All That Ends - Hardcover

Praise for OF ALL THAT ENDS
 
“Brief, gentle, intimate meditations illustrated by [Grass’s] own soft-pencil drawings . . . Elegant musings on dying and, most poignantly, living.” — Kirkus Reviews
 
Praise for Günter Grass

“Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age.” — Times (London)

“[Grass’s] frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.”
— The Swedish Academy, Nobel committee

“Grass is the strongest, most inventive writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945. Much of what is active in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man’s ribald keeping.” — George Steiner

“It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grass’s] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the form of the novel and [his] many good stories and passages of exquisite writing.” — Charles Simic, New York Review of Books

“It was Günter Grass who demonstrated that it was possible to be a living writer who wrote with Dickens’s full range of emotion and relentless outpouring of language. Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos—all with an unforgiving conscience.” — John Irving, New York Times Book Review
 
“The great dancer of German literature, dancing across history’s horrors toward literature’s beauty, surviving evil because of his personal grace, and his comedian’s sense of the ridiculous as well.” — Salman Rushdie 

GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.
 

BREON MITCHELL is Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the Lilly Library. A Rhodes Scholar, he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Oxford University. His areas of specialization include literary translation, Anglo-German literary relations, literature and the visual arts, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Beckett.