Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked CooksGunter Grass began his writing career as a poet and dramatist. His early plays, four of which are collected in this volume, show the brilliant inventiveness and the verbal pyrotechnics that made his later novels electrifying. As with the novels, the plays' surface farce and absurdity enwrap complex motives. Flood stands for mankind's survival from yet another catastrophe. In Mister, Mister, Grass plays the sinisterly innocent games of childhood. Only