The Duel. The story of Günter Grass and Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Their forced marriage, as Günter Grass once called it, was officially sealed on January 1, 1960: On that day, the critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki discussed The Tin Drum by the then 32-year-old author. He panned the novel. And thus began the tumultuous relationship between MRR and GG. A half-century of disputes, numerous novels and critiques, declarations of love and anger followed. Volker Weidermann vividly and colorfully narrates the mutual dependence of the two and simultaneously paints a grand panorama of 20th-century history. Unabridged reading with Gert Heidenreich 7 CDs | approx. 9 hours 1 minute.