- Hamburg : Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co. 1962
- 8vo.
- cloth.
- Per volume:
- Order Nr. 34114
- Price: $ 25.00

Printed in an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. History as a series of biographies and meals? Along with a magical fish who doesn't want to be eaten (one recognizes the Grimm fairy tale). Men catch food, women prepare it, or at least in this novel, whose apparently everlasting fisherman protagonist keeps meeting the same well-informed fish while his equally immortal wife manifests again and again in various guises (always as a cook), though lacking a personal memory of human history or past lives. In the "present," the flounder has been caught by three lesbians and brought to trial before a radical feminist tribunal for having "served the male cause in an advisory capacity since the late Neolithic, well knowing that his advice redounded to the detriment of the female sex." But the flounder still has something to say... Finely illustrated with 27 of Grass' excellent, grotesquely realistic original illustrations printed in two colors by The Anthoensen Press. Printed throughout on grey paper made for this edition. Letterpress printed by Daniel Keleher at his Wild Carrot Letterpress. Translation by Ralph Manheim. With Newsletter prospectus loosely inserted. Touch of wear along bottom of slipcase.