Günter Grass

1927–2015 · lived 87 years

Günter Grass was a German writer, born in 1927 and died in 2015, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. He is one of the most influential and recognized German-language authors of the post-war period, known for his works that address German history, guilt, and collective memory.

n. 1927-10-16, Cidade Livre de Danzig · m. 2015-04-13, Lübeck

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Günter Grass is widely celebrated for his debut novel, 'The Tin Drum' (Die Blechtrommel, 1959), which became a landmark in German and world literature. His work is characterized by a complex narrative style, often using the grotesque, black humor, and satire to criticize the Nazi past and the complexities of German society. Grass was also a visual artist, with activities in sculpture and drawing. His writing explores themes such as identity, politics, morality, and the consequences of war, always with a critical and engaged eye. He received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize, for his contribution to literature.

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Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

You can declare at the very start that it’s impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your back, so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels.

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