Twentieth-century lit

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<"The Tin Drum" is doubtless the best novel of Grass but at the same time 
the best and most important novel of the German past-ww2 literature.>>

I've long loved and admired Grass and I think Dog Years is quite as fine as 
Tin Drum.  I also liked The Flounder, although I know many who didn't.  

They share ambitions and encylopedic aspects, but I have never thought of Tin 
Drum as an influence on GR.  I would be surprised to learn TP was unaware of 
Tin Drum, but I don't see influence particularly.

<<I always preferred him to Böll.>>

Me too, although I like Billiards at Half Past Nine very much.