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"The dishonesty with which Wolf presents this case is almost childish" (Ian Buruma, the New Republic ). But a few consider "the Dapper Don of the Stasi" credible.
("This typically German combination of dark ecology and Nazi trauma found such disfavor," Buruma continues, "that Grass went off to India to sulk."
Culturebox has not read Grass' 1987 novel The Rat , but Ian Buruma has described it as "tales of the end of mankind, with the German chancellor riding through the forest in which concentration-camp victims disguised as mutilated fairy-tale characters were roaming around the poisoned trees."
For the Occidentalist "creed of Islamist revolutionaries," see, e.g., Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (Penguin Press, 2004).
And having seen one of the famous public schools at rather too close quarters back when I was 14, during your sabbatical year in London, I think that if I were British, I'd be more likely to approach those charming and inessential aspects of British society with a box of explosives than with the Spectator 's pious reverence (and on the Speccie in particular, you'll remember Ian Buruma's devastating account of the place in his book Anglomania ).