Grass's novels are peopled with outlandish characters: grotesques, clowns, scarecrows, dwarfs.格拉斯的小说里充斥着稀奇古怪的人物：丑陋的怪人、小丑、稻草人和侏儒。I was by no means short in stature, but next to this man I felt like a dwarf.我的身材绝不矮，但在这个人身边我觉得自己像个侏儒。But these were not fully-grown men; they were midgets.但这些男人发育不完全，他们是侏儒。