Show Your Tongue by Günter Grass
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Overview: In the fall and winter of 1987-88, Günter Grass and his wife, Ute, settled in Calcutta for the Bengali-language staging of his 1966 play, ”The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising.” Show Your Tongue is his honest, even passionate response to the fabled and maligned city: 97 pages of journals, a 12-stanza poem and 112 pages of Expressionist drawings.
John E. Woods’s translation does not betray the urgency and the intimacy of the material.
This one-man show of a book is Mr. Grass’s tribute to Calcutta’s unparalleled ability to move and engage. It may be Kipling’s city of dreadful night, and of the infamous Black Hole, but it’s also Dominique Lapierre’s city of joy, the home of numerous modern saints (not just Mother Teresa) and master creators. Calcutta was also the home of Subhas Chandra Bose, Bengal’s all-time favorite son, impatient freedom fighter, enemy of Gandhi, would-be saboteur of the British war effort, opportunistic ally of the Fascists in World War II and a figure of enormous difficulty for the author of The Tin Drum.
Show Your Tongue (the title is an allusion to the bloody-mouthed, patiently waiting goddess of destruction, Kali, who is usually represented with her tongue hanging out) is in many ways, despite its virtuosity, a modest, very personal book.
Genre: Biography/Memoir > Travel > India
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