Grendel

'''Gardner, John. Grendel.''' New York: Knopf, 1972. New York: Ballantine, [1979].

The Beowulf story through the death of Grendel (with foreshadowings of later episodes) told from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, who knows "the mindless, mechanical bruteness of things" (Ballantine edn. 46)—including the mechanical nature of the universe, goats, men, and Grendel. See for a highly sophisticated "mainstream" use of the mechanization motif; cf. and contrast K. Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, q.v. this Category.