Local Anaesthetic (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gunter Grass
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1967
- Setting: West Berlin
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, Politics, Psychology or psychologists, Idealism, Dentistry or dentists, Germany or German people, Berlin
- Locales: West Berlin, West Germany
Characters Discussed
Eberhard Starusch (AY-behr- hahrt SHTAH-rewsh), nicknamed Hardy. He is the grown-up Störtebeker, a character from The Tin Drum (1961) who had been the wartime leader of a Danzig youth gang, the Dusters. Starusch, at the time of this story, is a forty-year-old teacher of German and history. Despite the aggressive look of his forcefully protruding chin, Starusch, who describes himself as a liberal Marxist, is inclined to compromise. His life is boring and uncommitted. He even avoids the painful consequences of dental work through frequent doses of...
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