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Meanwhile, Corriere della Sera of Milan "deeply offended" (source, the Times of London) Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany by publishing a front-page cartoon of him in the uniform and helmet of a Nazi concentration-camp guard to mark his arrival in Rome for a summit meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
And the dubious account given by the newly arrived ex-prisoner about his concentration-camp experiences--the article that put him on the map in America--enmeshed him in controversy and self-contradiction.
The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.
Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.
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."
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