![]() ![]() Mahlke explores the shipwreck by diving through a hatch, and with his ever-present screwdriver salvages various items (information plaques, objects left behind by the crew, and even a gramophone) to sell or collect for himself. Much of the action of the story is on a half-submerged sunken minesweeper of the Polish Navy, on which the narrator, Mahlke and their friends meet each summer. The narrator describes the character "The Great Mahlke" from their youth together through to Mahlke's disappearance near the end of the Second World War. The story is set in Danzig (Gdańsk) around the time of the Second World War and Nazi rule. ![]() The narrator Pilenz "alone could be termed his friend, if it were possible to be friends with Mahlke" (p. 78) much of Pilenz's narration addresses Mahlke directly by means of second-person narration. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. Cat and Mouse ( German: Katz und Maus) is a 1961 novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. ![]()
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