Guenther Grass and Ernst Juenger

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The new book by Guenther Grass, one of Germany's leading & internationally
renowned novelists, contains a fictitious dialogue between Ernst Juenger and
Erich Maria Remarque (author of "All Quiet on the Western Front"). Grass'
book is called "Mein Jahrhundert" (published by Steidl Verlag) and is a
partly private, partly historical résumé of the 20th century. A short
chapter is devoted to each year and the years 1914/18 consist of said
fictitious encounter between Remarque and Juenger taking place somewhere in
Switzerland at some point in the '60s. 

I gather from early reviews that the literary critics are finding this
particular part of the book rather uninspired (I find, however, that it
could have been worse).